The Supreme Court has directed the Medical Counselling Committee to conduct a special round of counselling to fill vacant medical seats for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test undergraduate courses while noting the acute shortage of doctors in India. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan further directed that the vacant NRI seats would also be converted into the …
Against the backdrop of an acute shortage of doctors, the Punjab government has decided to rehire retired medical specialists in the health department. Dr Balbir said, “For instance, if there is a post of medical specialist lying vacant in Shutrana, we will send a hardworking re-employed doctor to fill that vacancy.” Several rural health blocks in the state are facing …
With the Supreme Court’s nod to Karnataka’s plan to conduct a ‘special stray vacancy round’ to fill vacant MBBS seats, and the extension of the admission date till November 15 for undergraduate medical courses, the Karnataka Examinations Authority will announce the schedule for the same on Thursday. S. Ramya, Executive Director of the KEA, told The Hindu, “On the basis …
Tamil Nadu’s Health Department has announced that counselling for vacant undergraduate medical seats under the State quota, will be filled through counselling between November 7 and 15. A total of 785 MBBS seats from the State were surrendered to the Central pool at the start of counselling for the academic year 2023-24. At the end of counselling by the Directorate …
The government will also implement 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. As per the orders, 670 junior assistant-cum-computer assistant posts will be filled in revenue department; 190 assistant engineers will be recruited to engineering sub-services, 72 medical officers, 53 medical officers and 26 medical officers and 24 homeopathy lecturers to Ayush department; 60 Grade-III executive officers to endowments …
