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Nearly a period aft the National Board of Examinations successful Medical Sciences (NBEMS) revised the qualifying cut-off scores for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG), a pupil from Telangana who scored conscionable 1 people retired of a full 800 has secured admittance to MS Orthopaedics astatine a backstage aesculapian assemblage successful Hyderabad. The candidate, belonging to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, had secured an all-India fertile of 2,29,981 successful the highly competitory examination.
The admittance came to airy during the mop-up signifier of the college-wise allotment database for the 2025–26 postgraduate aesculapian admissions nether the competent authorization quota, released by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) connected February 9. The mop-up signifier is conducted aft the completion of regular counselling rounds to capable remaining vacant seats.
The papers shows that this was not an isolated case. A pupil from the SC2 class who scored 12 marks and secured fertile 2,29,830 obtained admittance to MD Forensic Medicine astatine the Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad. Another campaigner from the SC3 class with 24 marks and fertile 2,29,452 was allotted MD Pathology astatine the aforesaid institution.
Similarly, a pupil from the ST class with 32 marks secured admittance successful MD Pathology astatine the Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal. Another ST class campaigner who scored 59 marks and secured fertile 2,25,997 was allotted MD Radiodiagnosis astatine the Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad.
Osmania Medical College, Gandhi Medical College and Kakatiya Medical College are considered among the astir prestigious authorities aesculapian institutions successful Telangana. As per the allotment list, much than 20 students who scored betwixt 1 and 100 marks secured postgraduate admissions crossed authorities and backstage aesculapian colleges successful the State.
The developments travel the revised qualifying criteria issued by the NBEMS connected January 13. Under the caller norms, candidates from the General and Economically Weaker Sections categories suffice astatine the 7th percentile, with the cut-off people reduced from 276 to 103. For General Persons with Benchmark Disabilities, the qualifying percentile has been lowered from the 45th to the 5th percentile, bringing the cut-off people down from 255 to 90.
For candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, including Persons with Benchmark Disabilities from these categories, the qualifying percentile has been reduced from the 40th percentile to the 0th percentile. The revised cut-off people for this radical stands astatine minus 40, compared to the earlier cut-off of 235.
Criticism of the repeated lowering of cut-offs has grown sharper wrong the aesculapian fraternity. Dr. Srinath, president of the Telangana Senior Resident Doctors Association (T-SRDA), said the justification offered by authorities was that seats should not stay vacant, but argued that this could not beryllium a crushed to compromise world standards.
“Instead of repeatedly reducing the cut-off, authorities should see conducting the NEET-PG introspection doubly a year. This would guarantee that vacant seats are filled wrong the adjacent six months, arsenic is already being done by institutes specified arsenic the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),” helium added.
Explaining the intent of NEET-PG, Dr. Srinath said the introspection ensures that doctors entering postgraduate courses person capable cognition crossed each 17 subjects taught astatine the MBBS level. He warned that repeatedly lowering the cut-off amounted to treating a structural occupation arsenic a imperishable solution.
Raising broader concerns astir the erosion of merit, Dr. Narahari, president of the Telangana Government Doctors Association (TGGDA), recalled his days arsenic an MBBS pupil successful 1992. He said that during that period, the past Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Janardhan Reddy, was forced to resign, with allegations of large-scale irregularities successful admissions to authorities and backstage aesculapian colleges among the governmental issues cited. These included accusations related to absorption quotas, donations and governmental influence.
