Medical college not on counselling list

CHENNAI: There will be 150 fewer seats on the seat matrix for state medical counselling by the selection committee on Wednesday as Sri

Muthukumaran Medical College

will not be on the list of self-financing colleges.

In addition, the committee will open 300 seats from two self- financing colleges with a rider that the mandatory recognition approval from National Medical Commission for these two colleges – Trichy SRM Medical College and Tagore Medical College – are still pending.

“The colleges tell us that

NMC

inspection was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said selection committee secretary G Selvarajan. According to the seat matrix released by the TN Dr MGR Medical University, renewal of permission for Trichy SRM Medical College is pending from February 2019 and for Tagore Medical College from February 2020. “During counselling, we will tell students about no recognition of these colleges,” he said. (The official seat matrix was not released by the committee until the filing of this story.)

The state selection committee, which conducts counselling for admission for all colleges affiliated to Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University and Annamalai University, said there were 26 government colleges, and 15 self-financing medical colleges. In 2020, 300 seats from two new colleges – Panimalar Medical College Hospital, Chennai and

Indira Medical College and Hospital

, Tiruvallur – will be added to the state pool. The government

Kanyakumari Medical College

received 50 additional seats and in

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research

the seats went up to 250 seats.

Meanwhile, the seat matrix released by the state university registrar Dr M B Aswath Narayanan on November 6 did not list Muthukumaran Medical College in the seat matrix. “The seat matrix is given to us by the state university. We will not be able to admit students until the university approves it,” said Dr Selvarajan.

In 2019, the Chennai-based Muthukumaran Medical College did not figure in the first round of counselling as its affiliation was held following serious infrastructural flaws. “The university is yet to give affiliation for 2020-21 as the same problems exist,” said a senior university official.