NEET 2022 Counselling: MCC develops software to list round 2 joined candidates ineligible for further rounds

NEW DELHI: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has announced that candidates who joined upto Round 2 of state quota or All India Quota in National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) counselling for undergraduate and postgraduate courses will not be eligible to participate in further rounds of NEET counselling 2022.

In this regard, MCC has developed a software for states and counselling authorities participating in NEET UG, PG counselling 2022 to upload names and roll numbers of candidates who have joined through state quota or Round 2 of AIQ.

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“In compliance of the directions of the Supreme Court of India vide Order, Medical Counselling Committee of DGHS, MoHFW has developed a software for all the participating states, counselling authorities for NEET UG, PG to upload the names and roll numbers of students who have joined up to round 2 and further rounds of the state quota or round 2 of the AIQ on the common portal,” reads MCC’s latest notification.

These joined candidates up to round 2 of AIQ or State Quota shall not be eligible to participate in the further rounds for All India Quota or for State Quota from the academic year 2022-23 onwards, it added.

Seat blocking, eligibility in NEET counselling

The Supreme Court had on March 31 cancelled the AIQ mop-round of NEET PG 2021 counselling and asked MCC to hold a special round of counselling for 146 additional seats which became available after the AIQ Round 2 on 16 March 2022. It had also directed the counselling committee to conduct a fresh round mop-up round barring candidates who had joined in round 2 of state quota, to participate.

The top court also dismissed a plea by state quota candidates who had resigned from the seats allotted to them in second round of state quota counselling and sought permission to join mop-up seats. The top court allowed them to rejoin state seats. On April 5, the Court clarified that a candidate will lose their seat in NEET PG counselling round 2 only if they join the seat allotted to them in the special round being conducted for 146 additional seats.

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Earlier in March, some NEET PG 2021 aspirants had written to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) complaining against state candidates who allegedly registered and filled choices in NEET PG 2021 counselling mop-up round for 50% AIQ seats despite clear guidelines of the MCC. The aspirants asked the DGHS to ask the states for the list of their joined candidates and allow MCC to scrutinize these candidates and remove them from the provisional result of mop-up round before publishing it.

“With all due respect we would like to bring forward the following points that clearly mention and provide that such an activity accounts to deliberate seat blocking,” the letter said.