Counselling for medical and dental PG degree/diploma courses in the State will be held for four days from Monday. Of the 11,121 who qualified in the NEET this year, 9,649 students have applied.
The first session, for the special category, will begin at 9 a.m. Counselling for the general category will be held from 2 p.m at lecture theatre II of the Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital.
The counselling is for admission to government and self-financing seats in both medical and dental colleges, including the Rajan Muthiah Medical College and the Dental College under Annamalai University. About 912 seats, including 558 seats in MD, 352 in MS and one in PG diploma (Diabetology), will be available in the first round. The Directorate of Medical Education has uploaded detalils on websites www.tnmedicalselection.ne t and www.tnhealth.org .
The State has on offer 1,758 seats, of which 50% have been surrendered to the Central pool (All India Quota), counselling for which is currently in progress. The seats that go vacant after the second round of AIQ — to be held in mid-April — will be surrendered to the State. Results of the first round of online counselling conducted by the Director General Health Services for seats under the All India Quota and deemed universities have been declared. C.R. Arunkumar, a service candidate, has topped the postgraduate medical merit list with 1007.5 marks in the NEET. Dr. Arunkumar (All India Rank 4,920) has topped the list of 6,188 candidates who have applied for admission to seats in government and self-financing medical colleges in the State. Under the management category, Kevin Jude Sudevan with 860 marks topped the list of 2,428 aspirants.
Veena G.V. topped the list of PG aspirants for dental seats in government and SF colleges with 764 marks. A total of 669 candidates feature on the merit list. G. Sandhya, with 627 marks, is first among the 364 candidates who are aspiring for admissions to MDS course in SF dental colleges in the State under management quota. On Friday, the Health Department released the GO for awarding of incentive marks to candidates who served in remote/difficult/rural areas. The incentive would be added to their NEET marks for admission purposes.
