Data of students going abroad to pursue MBBS is not maintained centrally, Minister of State for health Bharti Pravin Pawar informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Since May 2018, candidates could not be admitted to a medical college without qualifying in NEET, and the results of the exam were treated as the eligibility certificate for such persons and no separate permission was required from the National Medical Commission. Thus, the data was not maintained, she said.
Dr. Pawar was responding to a series of questions raised in the Lok Sabha by nine Members of Parliament (MP) representing Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar, West Bengal and Telangana. They were posed by Dayanidhi Maran, Sougata Ray, Rama Devi, E.T. Mohammed Basheer, Rajmohan Unnithan, V.K. Sreekandan, Asaduddin Owaisi, N.K. Premachandran and S. Venkatesan.
