Medical admission: 1,000 missing seats from CET matrix leave aspirants anxious
The seats are from eight medical colleges — six private and one government — and one private dental college.
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The students and parents, however, have questioned including these colleges in the seat matrix without the required permission. (Express File Photo) As many as 1,000 seats were found missing from the first round of allotment declared by the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell on Friday morning, leaving medical aspirants anxious. The “missing” seats were available at the time of declaration of seat matrix and students had included them in their preference forms.
The seats are from eight medical colleges — six private and one government — and one private dental college. In a circular issued Friday evening, the CET Cell clarified, “There are few colleges for which some of the necessary permissions are awaited and hence they are not included in the first round of allotment (MBBS/BDS) course. These seats will be considered during the subsequent rounds for allotment once all the necessary permissions are received.”
An official from the CET Cell said, “These colleges are awaiting the renewal of approval from the Maharashtra University of Health Science (MUHS)… without the approval, a seat cannot be allotted in the college.”
The students and parents, however, have questioned including these colleges in the seat matrix without the required permission. “This is misguiding students. Seat matrix is to provide information on available seats for admissions. Accordingly, aspirants will fill their college preferences. If there is no guarantee of allotment to these colleges, CET Cell should have excluded those from the seat-matrix,” said Sudha Shenoy, a parent, adding that this is happening for the third time.
“Last year, exactly the same chaos was witnessed during medical PG admissions with 300 missing seats from the first round of allotment, a year before that there was a similar issue in UG admission,” she said.
Disgruntled candidates and parents have sent multiple emails to the Maharashtra CET Cell regarding faulty allotment. “Is MUHS and CET cell hand-in-gloves to remove these seats from round one allotments to purposely create panic so that parents can rush to fill seats in deemed universities and other states to favour someone at lower ranks in future round,” questioned the email, which demanded cancellation of round one seat allotments to avoid the injustice.
Parents have also pointed out that All India Quota (AIQ) allotments are already done on 50 per cent of the seats in Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (MGIMS) Wardha, which is a single government college in the list of seven medical colleges in question.
“For seat allotment in government colleges, 50 per cent seats are under central body of admissions and remaining 50 per cent are with the state CET Cell. Considering the AIQ seat allotments are already offered in this college, they have the NMC approval. Then why the delay in MUHS approval,” asked another parent, Brijesh Sutaria.
Shenoy said, “NMC approvals are allotted in June. There is no reason for MUHS approval to take so long. This indicates malafide intention.” At the time of declaration of seat matrix, 7,344 medical seats were available for admission in Maharashtra under the CET Cell.
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