Counselling process at new AIIMS centres

Counselling process at new AIIMS centres 

Education analysts are now questioning the counselling process since seats are left vacant by lot of student after they dropout after securing a seat under state quota. Such situation now demand admission reforms through the central quota.

The reason behind this demand is due to the fact that about 40 MBBS seats at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India’s leading medical school institute, have been left vacant by such students.

Out of the astounding number of student who take the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) qualify for a medical degree only small percentage qualify but even then the seats are left abandoned.

Many of students applied for admission but as soon as they got elsewhere they left the seats which they acquired through state 

Here is the final count of seats for the 2022 academic year which showed 39 MBBS have been abandoned in a similar fashion

Count distribution:

13 in AIIMS Madurai

6 in AIIMS Patna.

24 in Tamil Nadu Private medical colleges 

This same issue happened last year and 10 seats in various AIIMS had gone vacant. Are 1,899 MBBS seats are offered in India under the affiliation of 19 AIIMS centres. The list of the centres also include the prestigious AIIMS, Delhi. Apart from these according to the actual seat count from government and private colleges for this year, there were over 90,000 MBBS seats available in India, with nearly 49000 seats in government medical colleges.As the process exists it is well know that after students qualify through the NEET entrance exam, admissions to these institutes have been taking place through the All India Quota for the last two years.

This is the situation now but Prior to 2020, admission to AIIMS and the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry required a separate entrance examination and counselling both of which are directly under the health ministry.

Every public medical college in the country has a 15% all-India quota, but central medical colleges have approximately 2,000 seats.

National Medical Commission (NMC) has made some changes to address this problem. The newly established rule states that once a student is admitted through the central quota, he or she cannot be admitted through the state quota.

But this decision came with a huge backlash. One of the senior officer said “this order was challenged in the Supreme Court sometime back and students with good marks, even after securing a seat under the all-India quota, later decided to go to another college of their choice” 

He also stated that a lack of facilities and a faculty deficit at certain new AIIMS centres, which were built to provide a medical college and hospital in various states along the lines of AIIMS Delhi, has meant that not many medical aspirants choose to stay back if possibilities in their home state become available. 

Dr C V Birmanandhan, former vice-president of the Medical Council of India said that:

“Admissions through the all-India quotas are carried out before state counselling, which allows some students with good NEET scores to cherry-pick a medical college. But, in the end, it is a loss of a very important resource as the government is spending a lot of money to create new AIIMS-like institutions across India”

Academic activities for AIIMS Madurai, for example, are being conducted in the Ramanathapuram government medical college because the institute’s infrastructure is not yet complete.

Because there is ferocious competitiveness for every MBBS seat in the country, career consultant and education specialist Jayprakash Gandhi believes the medical education supervisory body should ensure that no seat is squandered.

12 lakh (1.2 million) candidates take The NEET entrance exam for India’s medical colleges based on this huge number he shared his opinion “In my opinion, the NMC should fight out the ongoing litigation quickly and explain to the Court how so many MBBS seats are going vacant every year due to chinks in the current counselling process,” he said.

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