Reducing cut-off percentile for NEET PG 2023 will increase pool of qualifying candidates: Health ministry
Union Health Ministry officials on Friday said reducing the qualifying percentile for NEET PG 2023 to zero will increase the pool of qualifying candidates but not dilute the merit system for admission to PG medical courses. Only those scoring the highest marks will get admission for PG medical courses, they said.
The admission will be done through a transparent counselling process and will do away with alleged backdoor entry that was offered by some private colleges, the officials said.
They dismissed as imaginary the speculation that students with zero percentile can also become specialist doctors. The reality is that students with the highest marks will be eligible for admission to their choice of courses and colleges, they said.
There are 68,142 PG medical seats in the country.
Till now, candidates scoring above 50 percentile were eligible to participate in the counselling process for medical PG admission through NEET.
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Last year, the qualifying criteria was kept at 20 percentile even then 3000 seats remained vacant under the all India quota, they said.
Some seats remained vacant under the state quota as well.
«This year alone, of the 68,000 available seats, 13,000 still haven't been taken up,» an official said.
Till now, candidates scoring the most marks were given the first preference for choosing the course and college. The entire admission is online and computer based.
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«Since a lot of seats in the entire process remained vacant, the students with zero percentile marks are now being given the
