NEET PG 2024 counselling cutoff percentile reduced, Check all details
NEET PG 2024 Cut-off Percentile
New Delhi: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), operative under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has reduced the cut-off for National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2024 admissions making General/EWS candidates securing 15 percentile and above and SC/ST/OBC/PwD candidates securing 10 percentile and above eligible to participate in the counselling process.
Issuing an urgent notification in this regard to the medical colleges today, the MCC mentioned that "as per decision taken by MoHFW in consultation with NMC, the percentile for NEET PG counselling 2024 has been lowered."
The reduced percentile for the NEET PG 2024 is as follows:
General Category/EWS- 15 percentile and above will be eligible to participate in counselling
SC/ST/OBC/ PwD category- 10 percentile and above will be eligible to participate in counselling.
Previously, the qualifying the cutoff for the General category was 50th percentile. The cut-off was 45th percentile for General-PwBD category candidates, and 40th percentile for SC/ST/OBC (including PwBD of SC/ST/OBC) category students.
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The MCC notice comes after yesterday i.e. on 03.01.2025, the Delhi High Court bench approved the reduction in the percentile in the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2024 examination for the subsequent rounds of counseling for admission to the Doctor of Medicine (MD), Master of Surgery (MS), and Diplomate of National Board (DNB) courses for the year 2024.
"Pursuant to the previous order dated 30th December 2024, counsel for respondents states that a decision for relaxation of existing percentile has been taken by the Competent Authority and has been approved...The percentile having been reduced for issues of admission to the concerned MS/MD/DNB courses for NEET PG Counselling 2024, counsel for petitioner states that their grievance stands addressed for the time being...Accordingly, petition is disposed of taking note of the statement made by counsel for respondents," the HC bench comprising Justice Anish Dayal mentioned in the order dated 03.01.2025.
This order has been issued by the HC bench while considering the pleas filed by physically disabled PG medical aspirants, who had challenged the conversion of the vacant postgraduate medical seats reserved for physically disabled candidates to general candidates in the third round of NEET PG counselling 2024.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the petitioners had earlier sought the intervention of the Court to preserve the seats for the PwD candidates in the NEET PG Counselling till the stray vacancy round. They had pointed out that the majority of the seats reserved for the PwD candidates were still lying vacant due to the non-availability of qualified PwD candidates even after two rounds of counselling.
Earlier, during the proceedings of the case on 30.12.2024, the counsel for the Government authorities had informed the bench that the file for relaxing the existing percentile was under submission before the competent authority and the decision in this regard was awaited.
Further, the counsel had submitted that subject to the decision of the authorities regarding the reduction in the cut-off percentile, they would also seek an appropriate extension for the third round of counseling.
In this regard, the Union Government counsel confirmed before the HC bench on 03.01.2025 regarding its decision to reduce the cut-off for admission to MD/MS/DNB courses. Taking note of the same, the HC bench disposed of the plea.
However, the authorities including the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), National Board of Examinations (NBE) or the National Medical Commission (NMC) has not notified any official decision regarding the reduction in the cut-off percentile and therefore the aspirants are waiting for the same.
Meanwhile, MCC recently extended the last date of resignation for students who have been allotted seats during the National Eligibility and Entrance Test-Postgraduate (NEET PG) Round 1 or Round 2 counselling process.
According to the official website of MCC, the last date for resignation with forfeiture of security deposit for NEET PG Round 1 or Round 2 seats is now extended to 4th January 2025 at 06:00 PM. With this, candidates are instructed not to wait for the last date and hence complete the process as soon as possible. Earlier the last date for resignation of Round 1 or Round-2 seat was fixed as 26 December 2024 at 06:00 PM.
To view the Delhi HC order, click on the link below:
https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/delhi-hc-order-neet-pg-percentile-267635.pdf
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