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Latest News |
| 07th
July 2010 / Times of India / Hyderabad Edition |
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Medical seats: State may agree to all-India sharing
Hyderabad: Medical aspirants from the state will get a
chance to choose from the best medical colleges from across
the country if the state finalises a proposal to allow
students to appear for the common pre-medical test (CPT),
a test conducted for admission into MBBS courses. This
would happen only if the state government brings out a
rule opening up its medical colleges to students from
other states.
Currently, the state’s medical colleges give admission
only to local students. The CPT move will help students
to choose from over a 100 medical colleges in the country,
which would be helpful given that the state is faced with
a shortage of medical seats. Officials said that the state
government is reconsidering its medical seat sharing rules
following the recent announcement by Union HRD minister,
Kapil Sibal, that a common entrance test for both medical
and engineering colleges will be in place from 2011.
“If the state sticks to its current rule of denying
admission to students from other states, our students
will not be allowed to take part in the national medical
test. Hence talks are on at the state level to do away
with the no seat sharing rule,” said an official
from the department of medical education. The state government
has been conducting talks with the Centre over the last
few days, officials said.
According to officials from the directorate of medical
education, the final decision on the matter will be taken
by chief minister, K Rosaiah. |
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