MUMBAI: MBBS candidates who missed the initial rounds of seat allotment and kept their hopes up when it fell vacant NRI The quota seats are bested by the students on the back end of the NEET merit list, helped by the NRI sponsors.
Overnight, around 152 candidates, many of whom are ranked in the six digits, submitted documents, including a certificate from the consulate concerned, to prove that their education was sponsored by an Indian based abroad. Will. Candidates with very high scores, who were banking on adding vacant NRI seats to the relatively cheap management quota – the fee difference could be as high as Rs 25 lakh-35 lakh – has been done by a minor section in the fineprint. In fact, a medical college in Maharashtra has already allotted seats to NEET qualifiers, who are ranked 267th from the bottom in the list of many lakhs.
When the registration for the All India mop-up round started on 10th March, many Indian candidates applied to convert to NRI status. The medical advisory committee gave time from noon to 6 pm the next day, March 11, for such students to change their nationality from Indian to NRI. However, the candidates wrote NMC Asking to change their nationality at the final stage of the admission process, possibly after all other options to secure a seat have been exhausted. “NMC was forced to open that window. 2017. According to Supreme court decision, a candidate can change his nationality at any time,” Dr. Praveen ShingareFormer head of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research.
NRI seats, which cost Rs 40 lakh to Rs 60 lakh per year – 4-5 times more than the management quota – and had no takers till last week, were now suddenly in demand and filled by candidates with rock-bottom scores. They went. Feather Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, loni (Maharashtra), the last management seat was filled by rank 83,817, while the last NRI seat went to rank 8,72,911. Feather Sri Devraj Urs Medical CollegeKolar, the last management seat was allotted to rank 86,416 and its last NRI seat to rank 8,76,357.
This scenario has played out in medical institutions across the country. The rank holder 71,474 had named MGM College as their first choice in the mop-up round. They didn’t get a seat, but a candidate of over 8 lakh ranks down from 8,73,286 got lucky, thanks to the clause that allows a student to suddenly change his nationality in the middle of the admission process. Hence, as per the NMC notification, out of 19 NRI seats that fell vacant in MGM, which should have been converted to general category, ultimately not a single one remained vacant.
The order by the NMC’s Medical Counseling Committee to crack down on the controversial NRI quota – which is sometimes auctioned for huge sums of money – came on January 10. It said that the vacant seats reserved for NRIs, Muslims, Jains during the mop-up round would fall back to the general category “Indian Citizens”. However, a sudden surge in candidates submitting NRI sponsors has reversed the order. In fact, a section of them is suspected to be dummy candidates to prevent them from being allotted at low fees by the respective college management. While the annual MBBS fee in private colleges ranges from an average of Rs 14 lakh (Hamdard HIMSR, New Delhi) to Rs 26 lakh (DY Patil University, Navi Mumbai), the difference can be as high as Rs 25-35 for the NRI quota. lakh per seat. With institutional quota admissions commencing from April 1, such colleges may still revise the final NRI list of candidates attributed to different categories of students.
“College agents have candidates on standby to beat the system. Those with low scores but paying more may get seats,” said parents’ representative Sudha Shenoy. “These students with low scores are assured of seats before the commencement of admission. The college tells them that they will get a management quota seat for a huge package including fees (cheque) and donation (cash). But as the admission round progresses and NRI seats remain vacant, these candidates are asked to change their nationality,” Shenoy explained. “One wonders why otherwise these candidates did not convert their nationality at the start of admission.”
Overnight, around 152 candidates, many of whom are ranked in the six digits, submitted documents, including a certificate from the consulate concerned, to prove that their education was sponsored by an Indian based abroad. Will. Candidates with very high scores, who were banking on adding vacant NRI seats to the relatively cheap management quota – the fee difference could be as high as Rs 25 lakh-35 lakh – has been done by a minor section in the fineprint. In fact, a medical college in Maharashtra has already allotted seats to NEET qualifiers, who are ranked 267th from the bottom in the list of many lakhs.
When the registration for the All India mop-up round started on 10th March, many Indian candidates applied to convert to NRI status. The medical advisory committee gave time from noon to 6 pm the next day, March 11, for such students to change their nationality from Indian to NRI. However, the candidates wrote NMC Asking to change their nationality at the final stage of the admission process, possibly after all other options to secure a seat have been exhausted. “NMC was forced to open that window. 2017. According to Supreme court decision, a candidate can change his nationality at any time,” Dr. Praveen ShingareFormer head of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research.
NRI seats, which cost Rs 40 lakh to Rs 60 lakh per year – 4-5 times more than the management quota – and had no takers till last week, were now suddenly in demand and filled by candidates with rock-bottom scores. They went. Feather Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, loni (Maharashtra), the last management seat was filled by rank 83,817, while the last NRI seat went to rank 8,72,911. Feather Sri Devraj Urs Medical CollegeKolar, the last management seat was allotted to rank 86,416 and its last NRI seat to rank 8,76,357.
This scenario has played out in medical institutions across the country. The rank holder 71,474 had named MGM College as their first choice in the mop-up round. They didn’t get a seat, but a candidate of over 8 lakh ranks down from 8,73,286 got lucky, thanks to the clause that allows a student to suddenly change his nationality in the middle of the admission process. Hence, as per the NMC notification, out of 19 NRI seats that fell vacant in MGM, which should have been converted to general category, ultimately not a single one remained vacant.
The order by the NMC’s Medical Counseling Committee to crack down on the controversial NRI quota – which is sometimes auctioned for huge sums of money – came on January 10. It said that the vacant seats reserved for NRIs, Muslims, Jains during the mop-up round would fall back to the general category “Indian Citizens”. However, a sudden surge in candidates submitting NRI sponsors has reversed the order. In fact, a section of them is suspected to be dummy candidates to prevent them from being allotted at low fees by the respective college management. While the annual MBBS fee in private colleges ranges from an average of Rs 14 lakh (Hamdard HIMSR, New Delhi) to Rs 26 lakh (DY Patil University, Navi Mumbai), the difference can be as high as Rs 25-35 for the NRI quota. lakh per seat. With institutional quota admissions commencing from April 1, such colleges may still revise the final NRI list of candidates attributed to different categories of students.
“College agents have candidates on standby to beat the system. Those with low scores but paying more may get seats,” said parents’ representative Sudha Shenoy. “These students with low scores are assured of seats before the commencement of admission. The college tells them that they will get a management quota seat for a huge package including fees (cheque) and donation (cash). But as the admission round progresses and NRI seats remain vacant, these candidates are asked to change their nationality,” Shenoy explained. “One wonders why otherwise these candidates did not convert their nationality at the start of admission.”