Reduce PG medical fees instead of NEET cut-off 2024: Aspirants call healthy ministry’s decision ‘irrational'

NEW DELHI: After the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) decided to lower the NEET PG cut-offs 2024 for admission into MD, MS, PG diploma medical courses, aspirants have taken to social media platforms opposing the ‘irrational’ move. The MCC NEET PG round 3 counselling 2024 will be based on revised NEET PG cut-off 2024.

The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) informed today that the NEET PG counselling cut-off 2024 for general and EWS candidates have been reduced to 15 percentile and for SC, ST, OBC, PwD to 10 percentile. The reduction in the NEET PG cut-offs was notified as per the decision taken by the health ministry in consultation with National Medical Commission (NMC).

In a similar move, the ministry had lowered the NEET PG cut-off percentile to zero for NEET PG round 3 counselling last year as well. The decision was taken as a large number of seats remained unfilled more due to the prohibitively high fees than shortage of applicants.

“If the government is so desperate about filling vacant seats, why not slash the fees instead of taking the easy route & lowering the cut-off marks? Seems many deserving candidates with "good ranks" skipped counseling, probably due to those "reasonable" fees,” Dr Mayursinh Jadeja wrote on X.

“#NEETPG is the biggest scam of goi… when they are allowing 90%of attempted candidates to take a seat… many people with deep pockets would have already booked their seats in medical colleges,” another user said.

“The recent NEET PG cut-off says as per MoHFW. Kindly, can the ministry explain how the decrease in cut-off actually helps the cause and not increase rates of seats or is ministry aware of it and yet supporting it? People are watching...turning eduction into business,” another X user wrote.

“Government, judiciary, NBE, working hard to fill vacant seat, but not by merit. If students not even getting 50 percentile, open merit should be allowed 1st As an open merit category, I will be happy the day clinical PG seat of government college will start remaining vacant after lower cut-off,” a X user said.