National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences has reduced the minimum qualifying percentage for NEET-PG 2021 For all categories. A senior official said on Saturday that the cut-off for NEET-PG 2021 has been reduced by 15 per cent across all categories. There will be no change in the rank obtained by the student in the national enter Test-Post Graduate 2021 Rank.
The decision has been taken in an effort to prevent “waste of seats”. Dr. B. Srinivas, ADG (ME) and Member Secretary, Medical Consultative Committee (mcc) said, “About 8,000 seats were lying vacant after the completion of two rounds of All India Quota and two rounds of State Quota. By reducing the percentile to 15 points, the Ministry of Health (MoHFW) in consultation with the National Medical Commission (NMC). will allow around 25,000 candidates to participate in the mop up round and will prevent wastage of seats.”
Earlier in the day, MCC asked the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to declare the revised result after the decision to reduce the cut-off of NEET-PG 2021. A letter by Dr. Srinivas to NBE Executive Director Meenu Bajpayee said. That after due discussion, it has been decided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in consultation with MCC to “reduce the cut-off by 15 per cent in all categories”.
It further suggested that the qualifying percentile may be reduced to 35th percentile for general category, 30th percentile for PH (Genl) and 25th percentile for reserved category (SC/ST/OBC). “Please declare the revised result and send the revised result data of newly qualified candidates at the earliest,” the letter read.
Additionally, earlier this week, the National Medical Commission (NMC) of the Board of Undergraduate Medical Education has removed the upper age limit prescribed for appearing in the NEET-UG exam. NMC Secretary Dr Pulkesh Kumar in a letter to Dr Devvrat, Senior Director, National Testing Agency (NTA) said that the decision was taken in the fourth meeting of NMC held on October 21 last year.
To this effect, the process of an official notification to amend the Rules on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 has also been initiated, the letter read. The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) has welcomed the move saying that it will give fair opportunity to maximum candidates aspiring to do MBBS.
(with inputs from agencies)
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