Medical PG counselling for open category begins

BHUBANESWAR: The Directorate of Medical Education and Training (DMET) Odisha on Thursday started counselling for Medical PG seats in three Government colleges in the State under open category. As many as 637 students have been asked to attend the counselling for 87 seats, sources said.

It may be noted that following the Supreme Court order not to give any special weightage to the in-service doctors in admissions to PG Medical seats in the open category as it would adversely affect the interests of meritorious candidates, the DMET cancelled direct Medical PG counseling held on April 23 and July 13 and decided to hold counselling on Thursday again for the open category to take candidates from the merit list.

The students registered their names after verification of documents on the day of the counselling. “After the Supreme Court order, we cancelled the previous counseling. We are conducting the counselling process smoothly,” said a senior official of DMET Sitaram Mahapatra.