MP NEET PG Counselling 2024: Redo round-1 merit list, add incentive marks to normalised score, says HC

NEW DELHI : The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has cancelled the merit list of the first round of the National Eligibility Entrance Test - Postgraduate (NEET PG) counselling 2024 and ordered a fresh one with addition of incentive marks to in-service candidates’ normalised scores. The court earlier stayed the seat allotment result of MP NEET PG counselling round 1 after candidates questioned the normalisation process used in preparing the list for PG admissions.

“The state merit list of NEET PG 2024 examination for the state of Madhya Pradesh cannot be sustained and it is accordingly quashed and the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences is directed to prepare a state merit list afresh by awarding the incentivised marks to the in-service candidates not on the raw scores but on their normalised scores,” a Jabalpur bench of HC said in its judgement.

Justices S Dharmadhikari and Anuradha Shukla reportedly put a stay on the provisional allotment results after a few candidates alleged that the state counselling authorities applied normalisation again even after the board converted the raw scores into normalised scores already. The PG aspirants argued that the double normalisation brought their ranks to lower positions in the merit list in comparison to their original ranks.

MP NEET PG counselling 2024: Round 1 admissions stalled

On November 27, the Director of Medical Education (DME) MP informed the registered candidates that the first round result scheduled for the same day was postponed due to a stay order issued by the court in its interim order on November 22.

The directorate had earlier said that the NBEMS clarified that state-specific percentile score and rank have been freshly prepared after awarding incentivized marks, utilizing the same normalization process. Hence, the new state-specific NEET PG 2024 percentile score and NEET PG 2024 rank of candidates, including their state inter-se merit, cannot be compared with all India NEET PG percentile score and rank, including their all India inter-se merit.