AGARTALA:The Centre has rejected Tripura Government’s plea for reduction in the cut-off marks for Schedule Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) category students for admission to MBBS course at Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC), official sources said on Friday.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and state Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty wrote to Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to reduce the cut-off marks from 40 per cent for SC and ST students, the sources said.
In reply to the chief minister’s letter, Azad on August 8 said, “the issue involved two aspects – teaching and treatment and the professionals are to deal with living human beings, so, diluting qualifying criteria is neither feasible nor desirable,” they said.(PTI)
