PG med counselling to start from today

Hyderabad: After a long wait, the counselling process for management quota post-graduate (PG) medical and dental courses is all set to begin from Saturday as the Kaloji Narayana University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) has issued a notification.
The NEET-PG qualified candidates had protested across the country against delayed counselling process. The KNRUHS issued the provisional final merit list after verification of uploaded certificates by NEET-PG qualified candidates on Friday.As per the notification issued by the KNRUHS, the NEET-PG qualified candidates can submit applications and upload certificates from 8 am on January 15 to 5 pm on January 22.
“In view of Covid-19, the process of application and certificate verification has been changed. The certificates are to be scanned and kept ready to upload. Application fee has to be paid online,” read the notification. The cut-off score for general category candidates is 302, SC/ST/OBC (including persons with disabilities (PwD) of SC/ST) is 265 and PwD is 283.
Classes for the PG courses are scheduled to begin from February 1, 2022. “The academic curriculum of the diploma and degree courses shall be completed by December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024, respectively,” said Dr MK Ramesh, president of PGMEB, in a letter to all colleges.