The Union Health Ministry on Sunday said the counseling for the NEET-PG will begin on January 12, opening up the process of post graduate medical education for tens of thousands of resident doctors, who completed their graduation last year.
"As assured by the Ministry of Health to the resident doctors, following the order of the Supreme Court, the NEET-PG counseling is being started by the Medical Counseling Committee from January 12, 2022. This will give more strength to the country in the fight against Corona. My best wishes to all the candidates," Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a tweet.
The Supreme Court in an interim order on January 7 allowed resumption of medical counseling for NEET-PG admissions for 2021-22 with the condition of 27 per cent OBC quota and 10 per cent EWS quota for this academic session.
The NEET-PG exam was held on September 11, 2021, after being rescheduled twice in January and April. The results were declared in the last week of September following which students for nearly 45,000 postgraduate seats had been waiting for the counseling – to decide who gets which course in which institution - to begin.
The process was stalled after a Union health ministry proposal to reserve seats for economically weaker sections (EWS) was challenged in the Supreme Court.
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