MUMBAI: A week after the centre's Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) removed the 'qualifying mark' criterion in NEET for admissions to super-specialty courses, aspirants are seeking similar relaxation in PG diploma courses. The College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS) of Mumbai, on getting many appeals, has written to the Union ministry of health & family welfare with the demand. In Maharashtra, 15% seats are vacant in 2021-22 admissions that concluded last week.
CPS of Mumbai offers around 25 PG diploma courses. As only 10 of these are recognised by National Medical Commission, and others by the state, it is not included in the central counselling process. However, admission criterion is same as that followed for MD/MS and DNB courses - 50 percentile in NEET-PG.
