Tamil Nadu Govt Passes Order for 7.5% Quota in Medical Admissions for Govt School Students
4 years, 4 months ago

Tamil Nadu Govt Passes Order for 7.5% Quota in Medical Admissions for Govt School Students

News 18  

The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday issued an order notifying 7.5 per cent quota for students of state-run schools in admission to undergraduate medical courses from the current 2020-21 academic year. As per the G.O, 7.5 per cent of seats shall be set apart on a preferential basis to government school students qualifying in NEET, in admissions to MBBS, BDS, BSMS, BAMS, BUMS, and BHMS from the academic year 2020-21. the executive route for implementing the quota, the AIADMK government has sought to take the wind out of the sails of opposition DMK which has been upping the ante on the issue and had staged protests demanding immediate implementation of the reservation. It wanted ‘legal protection’ for the 7.5 per cent quota and urged Purohit to clear the TN Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to the students of the Government Schools Bill 2020, passed by the assembly last month. The state-run school students are also entitled to compete for government seats, other than the 7.5 per cent, along with students who studied in private schools.

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Tamil Nadu will continue its efforts to get NEET exemption, says Govi. Chezhiaan
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Tamil Nadu will continue its efforts to get NEET exemption, says Govi. Chezhiaan

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Minister for Higher Education Govi Chezhiaan on Tuesday said the State would continue its efforts to get exemption from the National Eligibility and Entrance Test for medical admissions. Speaking to reporters at Manapparai after participating in the Makkaludan Mudalvar scheme camp, Mr.Chezhiaan said even after the State government passed a resolution in the Assembly, urging the Union government …

Telangana scraps 15% non-local quota in engineering admissions
1 month ago

Telangana scraps 15% non-local quota in engineering admissions

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:The Telangana government has abolished the 15 per cent non-local quota in convener quota seats for BTech programmes, ensuring that from the 2025-26 academic year, these seats will be reserved exclusively for the state students. Since the bifurcation, 85 per cent of seats in engineering colleges were reserved for local students, while 15 per cent remained open to non-local candidates, …

Tamil Nadu to Appeal Scrapping of Domicile-Based Quota
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu to Appeal Scrapping of Domicile-Based Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: A revision petition would soon be filed to appeal against the Supreme Court’s contention that domicile-based reservation in PG medical seats was unconstitutional as the removal of the 50 per cent quota for students from Tamil Nadu in MD, MS and postgraduate diploma courses would deprive 1207 students of their opportunities to pursue higher education in medicine and surgery, …

T.N. govt. to file review petition against SC verdict on residence-based quota in PG medical courses
1 month, 3 weeks ago

T.N. govt. to file review petition against SC verdict on residence-based quota in PG medical courses

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government will soon file a review petition against the Supreme Court ruling that residence-based reservation in postgraduate medical courses was “unconstitutionally impermissible,” after consulting legal experts, Health Minister Ma. Of this, 50% seats have been reserved for students of Tamil Nadu, benefiting nearly 1,200 students,” he said. A review petition will be filed against this ruling on …

NEET PG: SC declares domicile-based reservation unconstitutional
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NEET PG: SC declares domicile-based reservation unconstitutional

India Today  

In NEET PG, the domicile-based reservation for admissions to various medical courses under the state quota has been turned unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which refers to the right to quality under Article 14, that guarantees equality for all. A three-judge bench, including justices Hrishikesh Roy, Sudhanshu Dhulia, and SVN Bhatti, delivered a judgement striking at the practice and highlighting …

SC ruling on residence-based reservation in PG admissions against State’s rights: DASE
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

SC ruling on residence-based reservation in PG admissions against State’s rights: DASE

The Hindu  

With the Supreme Court ruling that residence-based reservation in post graduate medical admissions as unconstitutional, the Doctors Association for Social Equality has said that this was against the rights of the State and would affect the in-service reservation for government doctors in Tamil Nadu. Ravindranath, general secretary of DASE, said southern States including Tamil Nadu had a large number of …

UG admission: Principle of elasticity in reservation comes in handy for Arunthathiyars in Tamil Nadu government arts colleges
2 months, 1 week ago

UG admission: Principle of elasticity in reservation comes in handy for Arunthathiyars in Tamil Nadu government arts colleges

The Hindu  

The principle of elasticity in reservation has come in handy for Arunthathiyars in admission to undergraduate courses in government arts colleges. This is evident in a response of the Government Arts and Science College, Sathyamangalam, in Erode district, to a Right to Information Act query by The Hindu on the efficacy of the Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars Special Reservation Act. The …

T.N. govt. lists benefits of internal reservation for Arunthathiyars in the last 15 years
2 months, 1 week ago

T.N. govt. lists benefits of internal reservation for Arunthathiyars in the last 15 years

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday said following the implementation of internal reservation for Arunthathiyars within the Scheduled Caste quota, thousands of students and graduates from the community have benefitted in the last 15 years and their enrolment in higher education has increased. According to a press release, the government headed by former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi decided to implement …

Arunthathiyars’ special quota benefits community, reveals RTI
2 months, 1 week ago

Arunthathiyars’ special quota benefits community, reveals RTI

The Hindu  

A law, enacted during the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government’s regime in 2009, envisaging the provision of 3% reservation for Arunthathiyars within the 18% quota of Scheduled Castes, has benefitted the community, going by responses of the Directorates of Technical Education and Medical Education and Research to a query by The Hindu under the Right to Information Act. Supreme Court judgment …

NEET-PG 2024: Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs State To Conduct Fresh Counselling For Vacant NRI Quota Seats
2 months, 2 weeks ago

NEET-PG 2024: Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs State To Conduct Fresh Counselling For Vacant NRI Quota Seats

Live Law  

The Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State's Department of Medical Education to forthwith conduct fresh counselling for vacant NRI Quota seats in the NEET-PG 2024 counselling. The division bench of Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice Anuradha Shukla observed, “Taking into consideration the peculiar facts and circumstances and further that the precious medical seats should …

Madhya Pradesh High Court Stays Filling Of NRI Quota Seats In NEET-PG 2024 Counselling Till Final Verdict Is Passed
3 months, 1 week ago

Madhya Pradesh High Court Stays Filling Of NRI Quota Seats In NEET-PG 2024 Counselling Till Final Verdict Is Passed

Live Law  

In an interim order on Wednesday the Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court stayed the filling up of seats under the NRI Quota in the NEET-PG 2024 counselling, till the final judgment is passed. The division bench of Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice Anuradha Shukla observed, "Taking into consideration the fact that the matter has been heard and …

Linguistic Minority Medical Colleges Bound By NMC's 50% PG-Seat Sharing Rule, Ensures Implementation Of Reservation Policies: Madras HC
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Linguistic Minority Medical Colleges Bound By NMC's 50% PG-Seat Sharing Rule, Ensures Implementation Of Reservation Policies: Madras HC

Live Law  

The Madras High Court has recently made it clear that linguistic minority self financing medical colleges are bound by the National Medical Council's 50% seat sharing rule. The court noted that though the specific seat sharing clause was not present in the 2023 Regulation, the new Regulation provided for extending reservation benefits for the deserving candidates. The court also noted …

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies

The Hindu  

For the first time, the Karnataka Examination Authority has decided to send the details and documents of 320 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the Non-Resident Indian quota to the respective embassies for cross-verification. This decision comes after KEA discovered irregularities involving 21 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the management quota in the All India Quota while …

‘Linguistic minority colleges bound by NMC’s PG education reservation rule’: Madras HC
3 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Linguistic minority colleges bound by NMC’s PG education reservation rule’: Madras HC

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Madras HC has held that private linguistic minority medical colleges are bound by the provision of the Post-Graduate Medical Education Reservations, 2023 issued by the National Medical Commission and the agreements made with the government to reserve PG medical seats for the government quota as per the applicable laws of the state or union territory. The court dismissed …

TN government gets six weeks to take call on 1 per cent trans person quota in education, jobs
4 months ago

TN government gets six weeks to take call on 1 per cent trans person quota in education, jobs

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has given the state government six weeks time to arrive at a decision on 1% reservation for transgender persons in education and employment. Accepting the state government’s plea for time to respond with an update on the policy decision for implementing transgender reservation, the first bench of Madras High Court consisting of Chief Justice KR …

Andhra Health Minister agrees to amend govt. order reducing quota for PHC doctors in PG courses
6 months, 1 week ago

Andhra Health Minister agrees to amend govt. order reducing quota for PHC doctors in PG courses

The Hindu  

Minister for Health, Medical and Family Welfare Y. Satya Kumar Yadav responded to the demands of Primary Health Centre doctors and agreed to make amendments to Government Order Ms. No.85, which reduces quota for in-service candidates in PG courses. Krishna Babu, Commissioner C. Harikiran and other health officials at the Secretariat on September 18 to discuss the subject of quota …

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box
7 months, 2 weeks ago

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box

The Hindu  

Politics over reservation in education and public employment is nothing new to Tamil Nadu. The question over the data has been addressed partially through the publication of the State Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department’s reply to a query under the RTI on the representation of Vanniyars and the rest within the exclusive 20% quota for MBC-DNCs …

Government order against PG quota for government doctors suspended
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Government order against PG quota for government doctors suspended

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The health department has temporarily suspended the government order 151, issued earlier this month, which had done away with the fixed 50% reservation in certain specialities of post-graduate admissions for in-service government doctors and withheld the quota for the academic year 2024-2025. The health department had, on July 1, issued the order, temporarily suspending reservation for in-service government doctors …

T.N. to surrender 851 medical and 38 dental seats to central pool
7 months, 3 weeks ago

T.N. to surrender 851 medical and 38 dental seats to central pool

The Hindu  

This year the State will surrender 851 MBBS seats to the central pool for which the Directorate General of Medical Services will conduct counselling. There will be four rounds of online counselling, including the stray round, for admission to seats under the government quota in government medical colleges and seats surrendered to self-financing colleges, ESIC Medical College, KK Nagar, affiliated …

Karnataka government fixes 20% B.Sc nursing seats as management quota
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka government fixes 20% B.Sc nursing seats as management quota

The Hindu  

The State government has fixed 20% B.Sc. The government has allowed 80% of seats of B.Sc courses in private nursing colleges to be filled through CET counselling by the Karnataka Examinations Authority, while the remaining 20% will be filled by the colleges under management quota. Legal action will be taken against colleges charging more than the prescribed fee.” This year, …

Karnataka government’s decision to oppose NEET is impractical, say academicians
8 months ago

Karnataka government’s decision to oppose NEET is impractical, say academicians

The Hindu  

A section of academics have termed as impractical the decision of the State Cabinet to oppose the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for admission to undergraduate medical courses and said there is no other option but to continue with the NEET. President of Karnataka Unaided Pre-University College Management Association M. Mohan Alva said the Supreme Court made NEET mandatory for admission to …

Karnataka wants 15 per cent NRI quota in govt medical colleges
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka wants 15 per cent NRI quota in govt medical colleges

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government wants to start NRI quota in government autonomous medical colleges in the state and has written to the Centre to sanction supernumerary MBBS seats under the Department of Medical Education from the academic year 2025-26. In a letter to the National Medical Commission chairman, Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil requested sanction of a 15% …

Tamil Nadu CM writes to PM on NEET
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu CM writes to PM on NEET

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again to exempt Tamil Nadu from NEET for admissions to medical colleges in the State and also to do away with the entrance examination at the national level by amending the National Medical Commission Act. He said the State Legislative Assembly had passed a Bill to exempt Tamil …

Give assent to NEET exemption Bill, Tamil Nadu Assembly urges Centre
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Give assent to NEET exemption Bill, Tamil Nadu Assembly urges Centre

The Hindu  

With widespread irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test that have come to the fore recently giving spotlight to Tamil Nadu’s sustained opposition to the medical entrance exam, the State Legislative Assembly on Friday, June 28, 2024, unanimously passed a resolution urging the Union government to “immediately approve of T.N.’s NEET exemption bill” and “make necessary amendments to the …

Centre’s submission in SC on NEET is another admission of its ineptitude: Stalin
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Centre’s submission in SC on NEET is another admission of its ineptitude: Stalin

The Hindu  

The Union government’s submission in the Supreme Court, which stated that the compensatory marks earlier granted to 1,563 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test candidates would be withdrawn, was “another admission of their own ineptitude,” contended Tamil Nadu Chief MInister and DMK president M.K. A few hours after the Union government’s submission in the Supreme Court, Mr. Stalin in his social media post …

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the NEET results having been declared, students' anticipation of securing admissions to medical colleges in the state is high. As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, students of Andhra Pradesh were eligible to apply for 15% seats in the unreserved category in medical colleges in Telangana and vice-versa for TG students. In retaliation, the Andhra Pradesh government …

Lok Sabha polls | T.N. is medical hub of India, with some of world’s best doctors who have not cleared NEET: Udhayanidhi
11 months, 1 week ago

Lok Sabha polls | T.N. is medical hub of India, with some of world’s best doctors who have not cleared NEET: Udhayanidhi

The Hindu  

Denouncing the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development, Udhayanidhi Stalin, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, said that Tamil Nadu was the medical hub of the country, with some of the world’s best hospitals and doctors, and here, many renowned doctors had not cleared NEET. Mr. Udhayanidhi said that in 2010, then Chief Minister M. …

Allow additional round of counselling for vacant PG seats in Tamil Nadu: Health Minister
1 year, 4 months ago

Allow additional round of counselling for vacant PG seats in Tamil Nadu: Health Minister

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian has urged the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare to allow the Tamil Nadu Medical Selection Committee to conduct an additional round of counselling for postgraduate medical seats as there are 69 vacant seats in MD/MS, 11 in DNB and 48 in MDS even after four rounds of counselling. In a letter to …

T.N. seeks special counselling to fill vacant MBBS seats
1 year, 5 months ago

T.N. seeks special counselling to fill vacant MBBS seats

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, urging him to permit the State to conduct another round of counselling for vacancies in undergraduate medical seats for the current academic year. The State government has filled MBBS seats under the State quota in government medical colleges and also government quota seats in self-financing medical …

States should be able to decide the quantum of reservation: MK Stalin
1 year, 6 months ago

States should be able to decide the quantum of reservation: MK Stalin

India Today  

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has opposed limiting reservations to 50 per cent in employment and education and demanded that respective states be allowed to decide on the quantum of quota. Tamil Nadu, for instance, had a maximum of 69 per cent reservation and it should not be capped at 50 per cent, the Chief Minister said on Tuesday …

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin demands states be allowed to decide on quantum of reservation
1 year, 6 months ago

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin demands states be allowed to decide on quantum of reservation

India TV News  

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, while virtually addressing the second conference of All India Federation for Social Justice, New Delhi on Tuesday, opposed limiting reservation to 50 per cent in employment and education. He targeted RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for expressing his support for reservation, asking where the same RSS was when the VP Singh regime that provided …

Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Chouhan announces 5% quota in medical colleges for students from govt schools
1 year, 6 months ago

Madhya Pradesh: Shivraj Chouhan announces 5% quota in medical colleges for students from govt schools

Live Mint  

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday announced that his government will give 5% reservation in medical studies to students from government schools from this year. “For the first time in the country, the Madhya Pradesh government has taken a decision to be implemented from this year under which 5 per cent reservation will be given to children …

MBBS : Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With 100% Reservation For Local Candidates In 'Competent Authority Quota' In Telangana; Says HC Can Consider
1 year, 6 months ago

MBBS : Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With 100% Reservation For Local Candidates In 'Competent Authority Quota' In Telangana; Says HC Can Consider

Live Law  

The current batch of petitioners, who approached the Supreme Court, claimed that they possessed better NEET scores and All-India ranks than those six candidates who were granted relief by the Telangana High Court. Background In July, the State of Telangana issued an order eliminating its earlier 15 per cent unreserved quota for admissions in medical colleges established in the state …

Focus Tamil Nadu | Why is Tamil Nadu opposed to NEET?
1 year, 7 months ago

Focus Tamil Nadu | Why is Tamil Nadu opposed to NEET?

The Hindu  

It has been six years since the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test became mandatory for medical admissions across India. Ravi that left to himself he would never ever assent to a Bill that seeks exemption from NEET for Tamil Nadu. He argued that NEET awarded merit, and that not having NEET would leave students from Tamil Nadu intellectually disabled. The …

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court
1 year, 7 months ago

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday reiterated that students who take admission in All India Quota seats for Post Graduate medical courses cannot vacate the seats after the second round of counselling for AIQ seats in National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test.The Court referred to the order passed in May 2017 in the case Dar-Us-Slam Educational Trust v Medical Council of India. The Supreme …

The anti-NEET movement in Tamil Nadu is misguided
1 year, 7 months ago

The anti-NEET movement in Tamil Nadu is misguided

Live Mint  

Suicides related to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and the controversy around medical seats in Tamil Nadu being put outside the purview of NEET for admission to undergraduate medical courses are unfortunate and raise serious concerns. The 165-page report invoked “social justice” and “protection of vulnerable student communities from discrimination” in medical college admissions and cited “social accountability and …

Association demands new law on PG admission quota for in-service doctors
1 year, 7 months ago

Association demands new law on PG admission quota for in-service doctors

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association has urged the State government to take a policy decision and pass a separate law with regard to 50% reservation for in-service candidates in postgraduate medical admissions. In a statement, the association said that every year, private doctors were approaching courts challenging a Government Order that granted reservation for in-service doctors and incentive marks …

'No need for Governor consent:' Tamil Nadu Health Minister on NEET bill
1 year, 7 months ago

'No need for Governor consent:' Tamil Nadu Health Minister on NEET bill

India TV News  

'No need for Governor consent:' Tamil Nadu Health Minister on NEET bill The state Assembly had last year once again adopted a Bill seeking exemption for Tamil Nadu from NEET, after Ravi returned it earlier. Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Sunday criticised Governor R N Ravi, for his statement regarding the state's anti-NEET bill, saying that since the …

No proposal to revive MP quota for admissions to Kendriya Vidyalayas: Centre
1 year, 7 months ago

No proposal to revive MP quota for admissions to Kendriya Vidyalayas: Centre

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Union government is not considering reviving the quota for Members of Parliament for admission in Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country as of now, the education ministry said on Monday. HT Image The government’s statement came in response to a query by Biju Janata Dal member Sarmistha Sethi in Lok Sabha on plans to revive the discretionary quota …

No proposal to revive MP quota for admissions in KVs: Govt
1 year, 7 months ago

No proposal to revive MP quota for admissions in KVs: Govt

Hindustan Times  

The government is not considering reviving the quota for members of Parliament for admission in Kendriya Vidyalayas, Union ministry of education informed Parliament on Monday. In a written response to a question raised by Biju Janata Dal member Sarmistha Seth on the government’s plan to revive the discretionary quota that was scrapped last year, Union minister of state for education …

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission
1 year, 8 months ago

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission

The Hindu  

The Puducherry Cabinet has recommended 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission from this academic year in the Union Territory. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Monday has decided to provide 10% reservation for government school students in MBBS, BDS and BAMS courses. The implementation of quota system will help 11 NEET-qualified government …

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education
1 year, 8 months ago

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education

The Hindu  

A private college in Karnataka has appealed to the government for a new ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy,’ under which students will be given free medical education on condition that they work for five years at the same institute after completion of the course. The Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research of Sathya Sai Grama, …

Over 40,000 applications received for MBBS, BDS seats in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 8 months ago

Over 40,000 applications received for MBBS, BDS seats in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

A total of 40,199 applications have been received for MBBS, BDS seats offered under single window counselling in the State for medical and dental colleges under the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University. As many as 26,805 candidates have applied for government quota seats and another 13,394 candidates have applied for management quota seats. This year the Directorate of Medical …

Telangana Govt to Scrap Unreserved Quota
1 year, 8 months ago

Telangana Govt to Scrap Unreserved Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: As many as 520 additional medical seats would be made available to Telangana students from this academic year thanks to the state government’s decision to scrap 15 per cent “unreserved” category for which students from Andhra and Rayalaseema had been allowed, till now. Earlier, he brought 85 per cent quota for locals in the B category seats in private …

NEET UG 2023 counselling to begin soon, here's list of important websites
1 year, 9 months ago

NEET UG 2023 counselling to begin soon, here's list of important websites

Hindustan Times  

NEET 2023 Counselling: Result of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test UG 2023 was announced earlier this month. NEET UG 2023 Counselling: List of important websites Medical seats in the country are divided into all India and state quotas in a 15-85 share. States conduct NEET counselling on their own and Medical Counselling Committee is responsible for holding NEET UG …

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee
1 year, 9 months ago

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee

The Hindu  

The directive of the National Medical Commission to fix the fee for 50% of seats in private medical colleges and deemed-to-be-universities on par with government seats is yet to be implemented in Karnataka despite multiple recommendations by the Fee Regulatory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by Justice Subash Adi. The committee has recommended to the Karnataka government to adopt these …

Tamil Nadu’s Prabanjan, A.P.’s Bora Varun top NEET (UG) with perfect scores
1 year, 9 months ago

Tamil Nadu’s Prabanjan, A.P.’s Bora Varun top NEET (UG) with perfect scores

The Hindu  

The National Testing Agency announced the results of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test UG 2023 on June 13 evening with two students securing a perfect score. This year NTA conducted NEET-UG for 20,87,462 candidates at 4,097 different centres located in 499 cities throughout the country including 14 cities outside India on May 7. The medical entrance exam was conducted …

Tamil Nadu panel has sought six months to submit report on Vanniyar quota: CM Stalin
1 year, 11 months ago

Tamil Nadu panel has sought six months to submit report on Vanniyar quota: CM Stalin

Hindustan Times  

The state’s backward classes commission has sought six months to submit a report regarding the contentious 10.5% reservation for the Vanniyar community within the quota for most backward classes, Chief minister M K Stalin said on Thursday in the assembly. Tamil Nadu’s backward classes commission has sought six months to submit a report regarding 10.5% reservation for Vanniyar community, Chief …

Commission working on 10.5% quota for Vanniyars need 6 more months: CM Stalin
1 year, 11 months ago

Commission working on 10.5% quota for Vanniyars need 6 more months: CM Stalin

Hindustan Times  

Tamil Nadu’s backward classes commission has sought six extra months’ time to submit a report regarding the 10.5% internal reservation for the Vanniyar community, chief minister MK Stalin said on Thursday in the state assembly. PMK’s founder S Ramadoss in a statement demanded that the chief minister enact a new legislation of providing a 10.5% reservation for Vanniyars by May …

Tamil Nadu’s ‘crash course’ on NEET
2 years, 1 month ago

Tamil Nadu’s ‘crash course’ on NEET

The Hindu  

A year after the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly historically re-adopted the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Medical Degree Courses Bill after it was returned by Governor R.N. The Bill, which seeks to dispense with the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test and allow admissions for undergraduate medical degree courses in ‘government seats’ on the basis of Class 12 marks, is pending presidential assent. …

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