Even as students aspiring for MBBS seats are perturbed by the filling of BC quota seats in self-financing colleges when OC seats remain open, the government has clarified it is only going by the community rank list.
Some students who had applied for MBBS seats were surprised to find that while OC quota seats remained open, the number of BC seats and BCM seats had dwindled to zero on the day self-financing colleges were included in single-window counselling. “The procedure is to fill OC quota and then only go down to the community ranking, and subsequently fill the community seats as is being done in Anna University,” says Jayaprakash Gandhi, career consultant.
Officials on the Selection Committee at the Directorate of Medical Education clarified that while the system of looping is followed for government college seats, OC seats in the self-financing stream are retained for OC candidates as and when they come for counselling.
Unlike the looping system followed in the government medical colleges, where if a student coming for counselling as an OC candidate does not find a seat in a college of his/her choice under that category, then if he/she belongs to the BC group, and can provide a certificate to prove that, can be allotted a seat in that college of choice in the BC quota. Subsequently, a seat from the OC quota will be removed against this. Officials said this does not happen with the self-financing college State quota. Students who do not come under reservation categories need not worry that the Open Competition seats will be taken up in the reserved categories. “Let the Selection Committee make the whole process transparent. Provide the routing of each seat online, so that students will not be unnecessarily hassled about their chances,” Mr. Gandhi added.
