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Govt may Scrap out Medical Ed Admissions
Govt may scrap out Medical Ed Admissions: In the Times of India, an article stressing on the headline “Government may take over medical ed admissions” because from the subsequent year the medical admissions which comprise of distressed traveling, last-minute finance involvement may be eased. This decision will remove the seat auctioning round or the final round of the medical admissions.
As per the decision, it will maintain transparency and eliminate the agents, brokers, and dealmakers who publicly sell the medical seats. From the beginning, the Ministry of Health is considering taking up the entire admission course to end. The institutional seat filling or may be called a seat-auctioning round or absolutely the final leg round for admission which involved the presence of students in the medical college campus to choose the unfilled seats.
Instead of campus filling of seats, all the admission courses seat filling may take place Online. Students are not required to be present on the campus to take medical admission. Sitting at your comfort place you can take part in a seat filling round or the final leg round for the medical admissions.
The Medical Counselling Committee takes up the charge of the medical admission for deemed universities across the country and after it closes online rounds, unreserved seats are filled by respective institutes.
The Health Ministry comments that when the students visit the college for the last round and they are put at immense financial stress as NRI seats which are 5 instances greater than normal seats. These deemed universities fetch high prices for each seat from the candidates. As the entire process is going Online all this will be streamlined as stated by Health Ministry.
The Ministry has to move to court for changing the admission procedure. Sudha Shenoy stated that “the benchmark for admission is only the ability to pay the highest sum for the seat and in the last round negotiations takes place.”
“Medical education is beyond the reach of the middle class. How can one expect medical graduates who spend crores on their education to give back to society?” asked Dr. Vivek Korade, founder of Forum Against Commercialisation of Education.