Extended by a day, medical admissions end today

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Thursday extended admissions to all government and private medical colleges by a day .With the spot admission round on Friday, the chaotic medical admission season for this year's batch will come to an end.
On Friday, the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) will carry out a spot round for admissions to all vacant seats across colleges at Grant Medical College.The final merit list of deemed universities will also be released. Aspi rants who are yet to land a seat are anxiously waiting for it.
DMER director Pravin Shingare said all admissions will conclude on Friday . About 80 seats still vacant under the 15% all-India quota in government colleges in the state too will be filled during the spot round, he added. About 15 seats in a private medical college in Dhule will also be made available to students, said Shingare.
“I got a seat in a dental college, but because I did not wish to pursue dentistry I surrendered it. Since there are a few seats vacant in the private and deemed universities, I hope to get a seat in the final round tomorrow,“ said Harshvardhan Mohite.
On Friday , a six-month agony for medical aspirants will end. A student who got a good ranking in the 3000's in the Maharashtra merit list said he was forced to drop a year as there were too many changes in policy this year. “NEET and the new admission policy in the state have only managed to add to the confusion in medical admissions when they intended to eliminate it,“ said the student.
With few vacancies left in colleges across the state, students are sitting glued to their computers awaiting the final list of deemed universities too.
Several NRI students gran ted admission by private colleges in August-September suffered a setback after the state refused to regularize their admission as they had not appeared for NEET. “The private colleges should not have admitted these students without NEET as mentioned in the Supreme Court order in May .The state can't go against the SC order,“ said an official.
With the medical and dental admissions wrapping up, the state has invited applications from aspirants for admissions to allied health science courses.“There are over 70 colleges awaiting approvals from the Centre.Once these colleges get approval, we will need to have those many applications to fill up these seats,“ said Shingare.
(With inputs from Yogita Rao)