UP: Admission to medical college changed to “religion”, 8 students’ admission cancelled, 9 students left their seats and ran away

Cases of students “changing religion” to get admission into medical colleges have come to light. The case is related to Uttar Pradesh Subati University in Meerut. In order to get MBBS seats from the minority quota in the medical college, 17 students forged certificates of other religions. Upon investigation, it was found that the admission of eight MBBS admitted students had been cancelled and nine students had left their seats and ran away.

Subhuti Medical College is a private medical college and a Buddhist minority college. In the first phase of counselling, 22 seats were under the minority quota. 17 students obtained MBBS degrees by forging Buddhist certificates. This incident came to light during the first phase of counselling for UP NEET UG 2024.

This came to light after the Directorate General of Medical Education ordered a probe into complaints of fake certificates. In addition, a review of admission certificates of students of ethnic minority medical colleges across the country has also been initiated.

Kinjal Singh, Secretary, Department of Medical Education, said that after investigation, candidates found to have forged certificates will be disqualified from admission and legal action can be taken against them. The medical education department is seriously investigating the matter. After the investigation is completed, strict action will be taken against all those found guilty.

UP NEET UG 2024 Revised Schedule

Let us tell you that the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has released the revised schedule for the second round of NEET-UG counselling 2024. Candidates can participate in the counselling by visiting the official website upneet.gov.in. The last date for online registration and document uploading is today (September 19, 2024 till 11 am). The list of winners will be announced on September 20. The online option filling date will be September 23, 2024 (from 11 pm) to September 26 (from 5 pm). Thereafter, the allotment results for the second round will be announced on September 28 and candidates can download the allotment letter from September 30.

Medical Seat Up

The Union Health Ministry recently approved the start of MBBS studies in five new medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. Besides, the number of seats in Kanpur Dehat and Lalitpur medical colleges has also been increased from 50 to 100. Thus, 600 new MBBS seats have been added. The total number of new MBBS seats in the state for the 2024-25 academic session has now increased to 11,200. Of these, 5,150 seats are in government medical colleges and 6,050 seats in private medical colleges.