Discrepancy Between NMC, DME Lists: Admissions to 23 PG Medical seats in Karnataka Put on HOLD
Bengaluru: Due to the discrepancy between the list of approved postgraduate medical seats provided by the National Medical Commission (NMC) and prepared by the Directorate of Medical Education (DME), the State DME has put admission to 23 PG medical seats on hold.
Even though these seats were not included in the first round of counselling, which was recently completed, they would be added in the upcoming rounds of counselling subject to the condition that NMC approves these seats, TOI has reported.
These 23 PG medical seats include PG medical seats belonging to seven private medical colleges and some of these seats are from the most sought-after courses such as dermatology, general surgery, Orthopaedics, obstetrics, and Gynaecology.
As per the latest media report by the Times of India, after the NMC published the seat matrix of all PG medical courses for 2024-2025 on November 18, the Directorate set up a committee to prepare the seat matrix- after verifying the NMC website, RGUHS data, and the data submitted by the medical colleges. However, these numbers did not match.
Referring to this, a letter from the DME office mentioned, "The seat matrix published by the NMC and the seat matrix prepared at the DME office were cross-checked, and a few differences in the number of seats were noticed. The above colleges have been informed to submit their explanation and many colleges have written to the chairman, NMC, for rectification of the same."
Till the time, NMC decides on these seats, admission to these has been put on hold. Now, these seats can be released only after NMC grants permission to include them in the seat matrix, clarified the committee.
Commenting on the matter, the Director of Medical Education, Sujatha Rathod told TOI, "While colleges have provided the approval letters from the NMC, the seats are not updated on the regular's website. Last year, there were a lot of issues with fake approval letters going around. We realised that it is safer to wait for the seat to be updated on the NMC website. Else, a verification or authentication letter should come from them. The seats will be added to the matrix when the NMC updates it."
