NEET-PG 2024 counselling eligibility cut-off lowered to fifteen percentile for UR, EWS classes

MUMBAI: College students with a 15 percentile in NEET-PG in 2024 also can safe seats within the ongoing postgraduate medical admission course of. The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) underneath the Directorate Basic of Well being Companies issued a round on Saturday decreasing the eligibility rating for normal and EWS class college students to fifteen percentile. For college students from the SC, ST, OBC, and PwD classes, the cut-off has been introduced all the way down to 10 percentile. In the beginning of the method, the cut-off rating was 50 percentile for the final class. Final yr, the Union Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare even introduced down the cut-off to zero percentile.
A round issued by the MCC talked about, ‘…as per the choice taken by the ministry in session with the Nationwide Medical Fee, the percentile for NEET-PG counselling 2024 has been lowered…’. The Indian Medical Affiliation Junior Docs’ Community additionally positioned the demand earlier than the ministry final month as a number of seats, together with in medical and non-clinical programs, had been vacant even after two rounds of admissions. The community requested the union minister to make sure optimum utilisation of medical seats within the nation. A number of the medical branches, too, see vacancies in personal and deemed establishments because the charges are on the upper facet. Prior to now, the cut-offs had been lowered to 35 percentile too.