Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: A total of 13, 295 students will compete for 900 MBBS seats in Jammu and Kashmir this year, as the results of the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 were declared on Wednesday.
As many as 24, 744 candidates from the State had appeared for the exam out of which 13,295 qualified the test but nobody from the State could find a place in top 50 candidates. NEET was conducted across 154 cities of the country in 11 languages and 2,546 centres. As many as 26,595 candidates from the State had registered for the exam, but 1851 did not appear for it. The exam was conducted throughout the country on May 5 and May 20.
In NEET 2018, 54.21 percent candidates had qualified the exam while this year 53.73 percent candidates qualified the exam, thus registering a decline of 0.48 percent from the previous year. The NEET is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in medical and dental colleges approved by the Medical Council of India and the Dental Council of India.
Sources said that there are a total of 900 MBBS available in Medical Colleges and 300 BDS seats available in Dental Colleges of the State for which these 13, 295 students will compete. “While there are 150 MBBS seats each in GMCs Jammu and Srinagar, 100 each in SKIMS Soura and Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) Jammu, 100 seats each have been allotted to four new GMCs at Kathua, Rajouri, Anantnag and Baramulla, which recently got Letter of Permission (LoP) from the Medical Council of India (MCI) to start their maiden academic session from this year,” they informed.
“Fifty percent of the seats would be reserved for female aspirants in each medical college as per the MBBS Admission Policy in the State,” sources further informed, adding that additional 400 MBBS seats this year will prove a big boon not only for the MBBS aspirants but also for health sector of the State as many Government health institutions are facing severe shortage of doctors.
Sources further told that the State may get 199 more MBBS seats this year under EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota by June 10 as the Board of Governors of MCI has recommended the Government to consider increase of seats under EWS quota for Undergraduates from this academic session.
Elaborating more, they said to implement the 10% increase for EWS separately for the Undergraduate and Postgraduates, there has to be an overall increase of 25% seats to ensure that the current number of unreserved seats do not decrease.
“Thus, in GMCs Jammu and Srinagar, which have 150 MBBS seats each, there will be an increase of 37 seats. SKIMS Soura and four new GMCs, which have 100 MBBS seats each, will get an increase of 25 seats,” sources claimed.
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