AP Health Department is facing criticism for supporting the private medical colleges across the state. It is known that AP Health Department earlier shocked all by allotting grace marks to the PG Medical Students. Supreme Court gave it huge shock and rapped it for its decision.
Now the Health Department is trying to reduce the qualifying marks of PG Neet citing student-professor ratio. Junior doctors’ associations and medical aspirants are alleging that ministers merely want to favor private medical colleges in the state.
Health Department already delayed the PG medical counselling citing lowering of qualifying marks as it failed to bring in a huge number of additional PG seats as publicised. Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas met Union Health Minister JP.Nadda not once but thrice to discuss the issue.
Srinivas said “We have requested the Centre to decrease the P.G Neet Entrance qualifying marks this year as the seat-to-student ratio is very low. There should be at least 1:5 competition or else non-clinical seats will be left vacant. The Centre had considered our request and will take a decision soon.”
Junior Doctors'Association representative Dr V. Tagore says “Merit students who worked day and night to qualify for PG Neet will lose their opportunity if the centre decreases the qualifying marks. The arguments by Kamineni Srinivas are not valid as very few students have qualified last year and most of them got seats based on their merit,”
Student unions are alleging that Minister Kamineni is trying to prop up private medical colleges as most of the students who have already paid fees in NRI quota and other management quotas get disqualified in Neet PG entrance.
Dr G. Naresh, secretary of AP Junior Doctors’ Association says “The MCI goal of encouraging talented students will get degraded if qualifying marks are decreased. The government, which earlier got criticism from the court for giving grace marks, will again face the same situation. This is being done to help private medical colleges,”
