47 Doctors debarred from NEET PG Counselling for blocking seats Last year

New Delhi: Facing the consequences of wasting seats last year, altogether 47 doctors have been debarred from participating in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate- NEET PG counselling.

The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), operative under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) recently published the details of those 47 candidates and clarified that "...these 47 candidates will be ineligible to participate in the counselling process of NEET (PG)-2023-24 and the security amount shall be forfeited."

Among the 127 candidates who failed to join their allotted seats last year, these 47 doctors participated in the NEET PG 2023 examination again and now they have been debarred by the Ministry.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that taking cognizance of 2,244 vacant post-graduate seats, earlier this year the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) introduced stringent conditions for appearing in the Special Stray Vacancy Round of NEET-PG 2022 counselling.

Introducing the new rules, MCC specified that candidates who do not join the seats allotted to them in the Special Stray Vacancy Round would be debarred from appearing in NEET PG 2023 examination.

Further, the counselling authority had also clarified that such candidates would be required to pay a Refundable Security Deposit of Rs 50,000 for participation in Special Stray Vacancy Round.

Referring to these conditions, which were announced previously, MCC in its recent notice further mentioned that an undertaking was also taken from these candidates who wished to participate in the Special Stray Vacancy Round of NEET(PG)-2022 with the abovementioned conditions, to which the ‘candidates voluntarily agreed’.

However, even after the conduction of Special Stray Round, a total of 127 candidates failed to report at the allotted college, MCC mentioned in the notification issued on July 19, 2023.

"Hence, as per the terms and conditions of the Special Stray Vacancy Round, these 127 candidates will not be eligible to participate in the Examination and counselling process of NEET (PG)-2023-24 and also the security amount of Rs. 50,000/- , as deposited for Stray Vacancy Round shall stand forfeited," it further mentioned.

MCC sought the details of these 127 candidates from the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducts the NEET-PG examination, to confirm if any of them participated in the NEET PG 2023-2024 examination.

According to the data provided by NBE, altogether 47 candidates were traced who participated for NEET (PG)-2023 Examination and had not joined seat in Stray Vacancy Round.

Taking action against them, MCC debarred them from participating in this year's NEET PG Counselling and mentioned in the notice, "Accordingly, these 47 candidates will be ineligible to participate in the counselling process of NEET (PG)-2023-24 and the security amount shall be forfeited."

Along with the notice, MCC has also published the name of those 47 candidates, their mobile number, email ID, and their Roll Numbers in NEET PG 2022 and 2023 examination.

To view the MCC notice, click on the link below:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/mcc-notice-47-doctors-debarred-215137.pdf

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