6 months on, 5000 NEET PG 2024 candidates await Rs 50 crore security deposit refund, Doctors urge counselling committee to act

Jaipur: Pointing out that Rs 50 Crore security deposit collected from the candidates during NEET PG 2024 counselling has still not been refunded, the resident doctors have urged the State Medical Education Department for prompt action to ensure an early refund of the security amount.

Writing to the Chairman of the NEET PG 2024 Counselling Committee of Rajasthan on Thursday, the under the All Rajasthan RajMES Resident Doctors Association (ARRRDA) pointed out that during the NEET PG 2024 counselling process, more than 5000 candidates in Rajasthan had deposited a refundable security amount of Rs 1 lakh as per the procedure prescribed by the department.

However, the association pointed out that even though more than six months have passed since the said amount was deposited, the security amount of the students has not been refunded yet.

"Not only is this a huge financial burden for the students, but the total amount involved is around ₹50 crores (5000 × ₹1,00,000/-), which is fully refundable," ARRRDA mentioned in the letter.

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The association also pointed out that the next National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 exam is proposed to be held in August and the students need financial resources to re-apply for the exam and prepare.

"Despite repeated reminders, the amount has not been refunded till now, which is extremely disappointing. Therefore, we humbly request you to direct the concerned department to ensure prompt and assured refund of this amount, so that the students can get timely relief and they can prepare for the upcoming exam without any hindrance," the association urged the authorities in the letter.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) commenced the process of refunding the security deposit collected from the All India Quota students.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that issuing a notice, MCC informed all the postgraduate counselling candidates who participated in the All India Quota (AIQ) PG Counselling 2024 that the refund of Security Deposit of stray vacancy and Special Stray Vacancy Round of PG Counselling who are eligible for refund as per MCC rules and regulations / counselling scheme has been made by the financial custodian.

MCC also released a list of candidates whose Security Deposit of stray vacancy and Special Stray vacancy Round of PG Counselling has been refunded. As per the list, a total of 9012 candidates’ Security deposits have been refunded.

Later, noting that the process of refund of the security deposit of some candidates of PG Counselling 2024 could not be processed by the financial custodian due to various reasons such as bank account closure, refund failure, chargeback claims, rejection, or TAT (Turn-Around Time) being crossed, etc., MCC decided to reinitiate the process. For this, the Committee asked those candidates to submit their updated bank account details in the form of an Affidavit duly notarized on a court stamp paper. The completed Affidavit must be emailed on or before 30 June 2025.

Also Read: MCC seeks affidavit from NEET PG 2024 candidates to reinitiate Security Deposit Refund