Chennai: The Directorate of Medical Education has delayed admission process for undergraduate courses in 2024, even after declaration of results as it’s waiting for National Testing Agency to release raw data to verify scores. Additionally, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in New Delhi is yet to release counselling rules and schedules.
The delay will have a cascading effect on the admission process for dental, Indian medicine and homoeopathy, nursing, and other allied health courses, as well as engineering programmes, officials said.
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The state plans to seek an extension for admission into these courses from central agencies such as Dental Council of India, Central Council for Indian Medicine, and AICTE so that seats are not wasted.
NTA declared the revised results and ranks of NEET-UG on June 30. “We have asked them to send raw data to states, without which we won’t be able to verify the scores the candidates give in the application,” said a senior Directorate of Medical Education official. “They have promised to release it soon. We are hoping it will come before the weekend.”
DGHS, which conducts counselling for central institutions, All India quota seats in state-run colleges, and deemed universities, is yet to release counselling regulations and schedules. “The state schedules are usually planned in sync with the DGHS schedule. In 2023, it even suggested dates for states to plan their counselling rounds,” an official said. “For instance, we start round 1 counselling after the DGHS completes round 1, and we wind up before it starts round 2. This way, students will have the opportunity to take part in both rounds,” the official said.
Student counsellors, however, say that the state should allow students to download applications. “The state gives at least two weeks to students to download applications and turn in filled-in forms. There is no need to wait for NTA data or DGHS schedule for this,” said T. Senthilkumar, a NEET coach. “Students wrote the exam in the first week of May. It’s unfair to keep them waiting,” he added.