25% PG medical seats remain vacant

June 02, 2017 12:30 am | Updated 09:21 am IST - CHENNAI

CHENNAI: 09/05/2013:  Medical College applications issued from today at Kilpauk Medical College  and some of the students and parents are waiting from 4.00 am onwards in Chennai on Thursday. Photo: V. Ganesan.

CHENNAI: 09/05/2013: Medical College applications issued from today at Kilpauk Medical College and some of the students and parents are waiting from 4.00 am onwards in Chennai on Thursday. Photo: V. Ganesan.

About 25% of seats remained vacant in post-graduate medical and dental courses at the end of counselling on Wednesday.

However, all postgraduate seats in government medical and dental colleges were filled but there were vacancies even in government quota seats in self-financing colleges.

All the 1,066 seats in government medical colleges and 25 seats in the government dental college were filled, officials said.

Self-financing medical colleges had 73 seats of which only 54 (74%) were filled. Under the government quota in self-financing colleges, of the 172 seats, 14 remained vacant. All these seats were in non-clinical subjects.

A similar situation was noticed in the dental colleges too. Of the 384 seats in self-financing colleges and deemed universities, 99 went vacant (74%) and of the 110 seats in private dental colleges under government quota, five seats were not filled.

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