NEET PG gets costlier from this year
New Delhi: The application form for the prestigious PG medical entrance exam, NEET PG 2021 this year is costlier than ever. The MD, MS, PG Diploma aspirants will have to pay the registration fee increased by 25.2 per cent for the General category and 28.3 per cent for SC/ST and PwD candidates.
The examination fee for NEET PG 2021 has been increased from Rs. 3,750 to Rs 5,015 (including GST) for general aspirants, while SC/ST and PwD candidates' fee has been increased from Rs 2,750 to Rs 3,835 (including GST).
NEET-PG is an eligibility-cum-ranking examination prescribed as the single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG Diploma Courses as per Section 61(2) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 read with 10 (D) of Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. No other entrance examination, either at the state or the Institution level, shall be valid for entry to MD/MS/PG Diploma courses. Qualifying NEET-PG is mandatory for entry to MD/MS/PG Diploma courses under various Universities/ Institutions in the country. NEET PG is mandatory even for foreign nationals seeking admission in medical courses in India.
NEET PG 2021 will be held on April 18 for admission to 10,821 Master of Surgery (MS) seats, 19,953 Doctor of Medicine (MD) seats, and 1,979 PG Diploma seats offered by 6,102 government, private, deemed and central universities.
The registration process has already started and the window will close on March 15, 2021. Candidates are requested to register with the NBE till then.
Important Dates:
Online Submission of Application 23rd February (3 PM Onwards) to 15th March 2021(Till 11:55PM)
Edit Window for All the Candidates 19th March 2021 to 21st March 2021
Final Edit Window to rectify Deficient/Incorrect Images 2nd April 2021 to 4th April 2021
Issue of Admit Card 12th April 2021
Examination Date 18th April 2021
Declaration of Result By 31st May 2021
The fee related to the NEET PG exam has been a matter of controversy for quite some time.
In the year 2018, an RTI revealed that NBE had collected Rs 48 crore as application fees from NEET PG aspirants in 2018 and it spent around a third of that amount to conduct the exam thus incurring a profit of around Rs 30 crore.
With NBE being an autonomous body under the Government of India, medical students had condemned the profits stating that ideally, NBE should have subsidized the fees.
Read Also: Health Ministry Refuses Role in NEET PG Exam fee fixation by NBE
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