Why Over 350 Candidates Barred From NEET UG, PG Counselling In Uttar Pradesh?

The Directorate of Medical Education and Training in Uttar Pradesh has disqualified over 350 candidates from participating in the upcoming NEET UG and PG counselling. Reportedly, these candidates failed to meet specific requirements in the earlier academic sessions.

The Directorate of Medical Education said that the candidates who did not take up their assigned seats in 2023 are being prohibited from participating in the NEET PG 2024-25 counselling sessions. It aims to discourage the misuse of available seats and to ensure the importance of counselling process among the candidates.

According to the letter provided by the directorate, these candidates were also allotted medical seats in Uttar Pradesh in October and November of the previous year. These seats remained vacant for the entire year. The recent move is to prevent such wastage of valuable seats and ensure that all available positions are filled by deserving candidates.

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In 2023, a total of 81 candidates were allotted MD/MS seats in various government and private medical colleges under the stray vacancy round. However, no candidate took admission on the allotted seats. Therefore, as per the government orders issued on September 21, 2023, candidates who fail to take admission on seats under the stray vacancy round will not only forfeit their security deposit but will also be barred from attending in the NEET PG 2024-25 counselling.

Also, 276 NEET UG candidates have been disqualified from the second round of NEET UG 2024 counselling after the discrepancies were observed in the documents submitted by them during the counselling process. The documents include quota certificates, discripencies in names during the registration.

Notably, the NEET UG counselling is going on while the NEET PG counselling will commence on September 23 onwards.