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Agartala, Jul 24, 2011 : Counseling for medical seats for Agartala Government Medical College ran into an impasse as almost 23 seats out of 25 reserved for the ST students are likely to go vacant in absence of eligible students with 40 percent cut off marks as stipulated by the Medical Council of India.
On the second day of the counseling out of 25 seats only five ST students were found eligible for the admission in medical study. But as the situation stood on the second day of the five students two are reported to have opted for engineering studies while the two remaining would get into medical science in the AGMC. Rest 23 seats would naturally go unfulfilled as these cannot also be directed to the general category students. The MCI had earlier set strict guideline to adhere to the standard of cut-off marks for admission to medical courses in the wake of Supreme Court verdict in 1997.
On Saturday counselling scheduled to come off in Agartala town hall was disrupted by irate guardians and students of the ST category demanding counselling and admission on the basis of 'ranks' and not 'cut-off marks'. The students and guardians also blamed the state's health department for not issuing any notification regarding the cut-off marks as an essential prerequisite beforehand. Commenting on the issue the director of health services highly placed sources said that the health department or state government had nothing to do in regard to the cut-off marks imposed by MCI .
'Till last year, counselling and allotment of seats for medical courses was conducted on the basis of ranks in the joint entrance examinations but this year the MCI has issued a strict guideline on the basis of supreme court judgement of 1997 directing us to conduct counselling and allot seats on the basis of cut-off marks obtained in the joint entrance examination' sources said.
They point out that according to MCI guideline unreserved category of students are required to obtain a minimum of 50% marks in both the joint entrance and Board examinations while SC and ST category students are required to obtain at least 40% marks in both the examinations.
'Candidates are available for all 44 unreserved seats and 15 SC category seats but only five of the twenty five seats reserved for ST category are available with stipulated marks but three of them have already opted for engineering course ; that is why the ST category students and guardians are protesting but we are helpless' said another official of the health department.
For MBBS course 84 of the one hundreds seats are available in Agartala Government Medical College are open for Tripura student and, in addition , there are 13 seats for Tripura students in Regional Institute of Medical Science in Imphal.
Following the ruckus on the issue in Agartala Town Hall , a delegation of guardians met in deputation with health minister Tapan Chakraborty and pressed for admission to available seats in AGMC and RIMS on the basis of 'ranks' in joint entrance examination. Pleading his inability to do anything on the issue Chakraborty informed the guardians that the state government had nothing to do in this matter and the issue had been brought to the notice of union HRD ministry and union health ministry.
'We have already informed the ministries that seats will remain vacant in the first year MBBS course leading to deprivation of ST category students and are awaiting a response from the ministries' Chakraborty told guardians , appealing to them to bear with the state government. Later commissioner for health department Sudip Roy, accompanied by Dr Satya Debbarma , reached Agartala Town Hall and assured the guardians that the state government was trying to persuade the union ministries to take positive action so that ST category students are not deprived and appealed to them to let counselling continue on Monday.
Agartala, Jul 24, 2011 : Counseling for medical seats for Agartala Government Medical College ran into an impasse as almost 23 seats out of 25 reserved for the ST students are likely to go vacant in absence of eligible students with 40 percent cut off marks as stipulated by the Medical Council of India.
On the second day of the counseling out of 25 seats only five ST students were found eligible for the admission in medical study. But as the situation stood on the second day of the five students two are reported to have opted for engineering studies while the two remaining would get into medical science in the AGMC. Rest 23 seats would naturally go unfulfilled as these cannot also be directed to the general category students. The MCI had earlier set strict guideline to adhere to the standard of cut-off marks for admission to medical courses in the wake of Supreme Court verdict in 1997.
On Saturday counselling scheduled to come off in Agartala town hall was disrupted by irate guardians and students of the ST category demanding counselling and admission on the basis of 'ranks' and not 'cut-off marks'. The students and guardians also blamed the state's health department for not issuing any notification regarding the cut-off marks as an essential prerequisite beforehand. Commenting on the issue the director of health services highly placed sources said that the health department or state government had nothing to do in regard to the cut-off marks imposed by MCI .
'Till last year, counselling and allotment of seats for medical courses was conducted on the basis of ranks in the joint entrance examinations but this year the MCI has issued a strict guideline on the basis of supreme court judgement of 1997 directing us to conduct counselling and allot seats on the basis of cut-off marks obtained in the joint entrance examination' sources said.
They point out that according to MCI guideline unreserved category of students are required to obtain a minimum of 50% marks in both the joint entrance and Board examinations while SC and ST category students are required to obtain at least 40% marks in both the examinations.
'Candidates are available for all 44 unreserved seats and 15 SC category seats but only five of the twenty five seats reserved for ST category are available with stipulated marks but three of them have already opted for engineering course ; that is why the ST category students and guardians are protesting but we are helpless' said another official of the health department.
For MBBS course 84 of the one hundreds seats are available in Agartala Government Medical College are open for Tripura student and, in addition , there are 13 seats for Tripura students in Regional Institute of Medical Science in Imphal.
Following the ruckus on the issue in Agartala Town Hall , a delegation of guardians met in deputation with health minister Tapan Chakraborty and pressed for admission to available seats in AGMC and RIMS on the basis of 'ranks' in joint entrance examination. Pleading his inability to do anything on the issue Chakraborty informed the guardians that the state government had nothing to do in this matter and the issue had been brought to the notice of union HRD ministry and union health ministry.
'We have already informed the ministries that seats will remain vacant in the first year MBBS course leading to deprivation of ST category students and are awaiting a response from the ministries' Chakraborty told guardians , appealing to them to bear with the state government. Later commissioner for health department Sudip Roy, accompanied by Dr Satya Debbarma , reached Agartala Town Hall and assured the guardians that the state government was trying to persuade the union ministries to take positive action so that ST category students are not deprived and appealed to them to let counselling continue on Monday.
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