Revise cutoff Score for NEET PG counselling Mop-up Round: Doctors write to Union Health Minister

In a letter directed to the Union Health Minister Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, FAIMA has referred to the fact that every year large number of seats, including clinical, paraclinical as well as non clinical remain vacant because enough candidates above the Cut off do not opt for those seats.

"As you are aware that, this year there have been many changes in the counselling process. Usually NEET PG exam is held after a gap of 9-10 months approximately. But this year even the NEET PG 2022 exam is going to be held with very less time gap i.e. 12^th March 2022 along with counselling of NEET PG 2021. Due to this many candidates unsatisfied with result will take another attempt for improvement ultimately will result in wastage of seats," FAIMA mentioned in the letter.

"We request you to kindly revise the qualifying score in mopup adequately. So that all seats including basic subjects are filled in States as well AIQ Counselling," the letter added.

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"The country is passing through a grave medical emergency & cannot afford any vacancies in this field. Challenging times deserve innovative measures," urged the doctors in their letter to the Union Health Minister.

Speaking to Medical Dialogues regarding the matter, Dr Rohan Krishnan, the President of FAIMA said, "Due to the pandemic, the NEET PG 2021 exam got delayed by 8-9 months and even the doctors who appeared in it were serving in the middle of the pandemic. Every year, the Government reduces the cut off marks after the seats remain vacant. However, they reduce it arbitrarily. This year, we wanted that the cut-off gets reduced to the maximum considering the situation at hand."

"IMA has also supported the move and they have pointed out that there shouldn't be any eligibility bar at the mop-up round of counselling, because in the first two rounds of the counselling, all the candidates who scored good secures admission. This should be done so that there doesn't remain any vacant seats and we have enough number of specialist doctors," he added.

These candidates have otherwise passed their graduation exams and thus fulfil the basic eligibility criteria, the IMA said.

''It would be really criminal if all post-graduation seats are not filled even in an emergency situation. This is a humble request from the Indian Medical Association to increase the workforce of available doctors,'' IMA had pointed out.