The medical counselling committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has called for a mop-up round for the 3,042 vacancies for MBBS and BDS seats in deemed universities and ESIC medical colleges.
Registration for the mop-up round began on Thursday and will end at 5 p.m. on August 18. Candidates will have to lock their choices by August 19 and the results would be announced on August 20. Candidates will get five days’ time from August 21 to 26 to report to their respective colleges.
After the mop-up round, the DGHS will provide the vacant seats to the respective colleges and will also provide a merit list of candidates who can be called for counselling.
Smooth sailing
Among the deemed universities in the State, the most number of seats vacant in the management/paid category are in Chennai-based Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital with 116 seats, followed by ACS Medical College and Hospital, which has 81 vacancies.
The colleges are hoping to call students based on the DGHS merit list. Medical college officials, however, said seat filling had been smooth though two court cases had eaten into the time allotted for the admission process. A source in Sri Ramachandra Medical College said it was among the first to fill all the seats last year also and it expected to do well this year too.
T. Gunasagaran, Dean of Saveetha Medical College, said in the mop-up round, they would fill 15 to 20 seats. “The process has gone smoothly and people have understood the process well. The candidates know they will have to make a firm choice,” he said.
