SHILLONG, July 27: VPP MLA from North Shillong Adelbert Nongrum has questioned whether medical seats under quota are being allotted on the same lines as the roster system.
He pointed out that the list of candidates for admission into MBBS, BDS, BHMS, BASLP, BUMS and BSc Nursing courses against state quota seats for academic session 2023-24 has been drawn up and circulated.
In a statement on Thursday, Nongrum said that the names of candidates are in three lists — Open category, Khasi-Jaintia category and Garo category — and are placed in order of their NEET UG 2023 score, which is indicated alongside. Open list has 30 names, Khasi-Jaintia list has 150 names, and Garo list 150 names.
Adelbert also said that the roster system does not apply to academics, which has been also stated to the press by the Chief Minister.
“Recently I was made aware that there is an Office Memorandum which was issued by the Health and Family Welfare department on May 13 which notified the methodology for selection of candidates for MBBS seats allotted to the state of Meghalaya. This OM lays down that ‘seats will be equitably allocated to each category as per category rank’, and that ‘the State Reservation Policy will be strictly adhered to’,” Nongrum stated.
He questioned under which Act or Rule the methodology for selection of candidates has been prescribed when there is clearly no such enabling provision of law that exists in the state.
“…this is something I have been saying time and again, how can the State Reservation Policy be made applicable to students when it is only a job reservation policy,” he added.
