Sale of application forms for MBBS, BDS courses begins

AS the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examina-tion results were published re-cently, the health department at KA Viswanatham Medical Col-lege has started distributing ap-plication forms for MBBS and BDS admissions for the present academic year 2017-2018, on Tuesday. Within a few hours of starting the distribution, all the 250 ap-plications were sold out. The anxious aspirants and the des-perate parents are to wait for a day to receive applications to participate in medical counsel-ling. As soon as the application forms ran out of stock, the par-ents were seen agitating with the authorities for not simplify-ing the application process by making it online. Subsequently, the health department has pro-posed to implement a digital ap-plication (online application) method within the next couple of days. The department started dis-tributing the printed applica-tion forms to the candidates for applying for medical counsel-ling to avail medical seats in government colleges and gov-ernment seats in self-financed colleges, from Tuesday. As the demand for applications was high, the department, after sell-ing out the first batch on the first day of issue, had to send for a new batch of applications. Speaking to Express, A Subra-manyam, a parent said, "I have been waiting to buy the applica-tion form for my daughter since 10.30 am. However, by 3 pm, the authorities informed us that the application for ms have been completely sold out. They told us to get the forms on the next


Aspirants queuing to buy application forms for MBBS and BDS courses at the MP Viswanathan Government Medical College on Tuesday 1 II IC ASHOK KUM
day by providing tokens. As the whole world is heading towards the digitalization and online platforms to get things done, can't there be a facility in place for the students to download the forms at ease?"
Confusion In Chennal
A missing sheet from the ap-plication set hampered sale of MBBS and BDS applications that began at the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospi-tal on Tuesday, delaying the process till afternoon. Without an option to apply on-line and also that even self-fi-nancing medical college applica-tions, were sold at government medical colleges from this year, there were hundreds who
lb make the forms easily available, the health department has proposed to implement online methods similar to engineering counselling Dr A ArsNya Begum V-P, KAPV gad college
thronged the applications coun-ter from the morning. The man-agement was dearly underpre-pared to handle the crowd, it was alleged. Officials at the venue said the main issue was that one of the sheets in the application set was missing. "So, sale of forms was held up till the missing set was brought from the printing press, which delayed the process till 2 pm," they said "We were expecting only around 500 candidates or so, but there were nearly 2,000 who turned up today leading to com-motion. We called in the police to manage the crowd and also opened three more counters to ease the rush, " said hospital dean P Vasanthamani. The Directorate of Medical Education has set up facilitation centre at its campus on Tuesday. Candidates can seek clarifica-tions from the centre. The DME has appointed one deputy direc-tor and five staff at the centre, which will function from 10 am to 5.95 pm. Candidates can call 044-28361674 or can come in per-son for queries.
Source: epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/20125689