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Chennai: Thousands of doctors remain without work as NEET PG 2025 counselling for All India Quota seats has been indefinitely delayed. Meanwhile, hospitals, including state-run medical colleges across the country, which engage postgraduate students as workforce, will remain short-staffed as students haven’t joined these hospitals.
On Nov 6, more than three months after completing the entrance test and hours before students could submit their application for the counselling, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), under the Directorate General of Health Services, said the competent authority decided to extend the choice-filling of Round 1 of PG counselling 2025 until further notice. The committee said the seat matrix was being revised as the apex regulatory body, the National Medical Commission (NMC), was adding more PG seats, and the National Board of Examinations (NBE) withdrew 169 PG DNB seats after the start of counselling. National Medical Commission approved 56 new PG seats in govt medical colleges in TN, and Directorate of Medical Education is expecting approval for at least 24 more.
Candidates across the country expressed outrage on social media, accusing the NMC, NBE, and MCC of complete mismanagement. “They had a whole year to give colleges permission to start new courses or add seats. Why would they do this at the last minute? We got results on Aug 19 and have been waiting for admission,” said Dr S Sathish Kumar, who is awaiting admissions.
Sathish and many of his friends quit their jobs earlier this year to prepare for the PG entrance exam. Some, like Dr Aarthy K, joined a year-long course to write the exam. “It’s not an easy exam to crack. If clearing the test needs knowledge, getting admission needs patience,” she said.
In most hospitals, PG students are a part of the workforce. “They take on the main burden in speciality units. Their absence will be felt,” said Dr A Ramalingam, general secretary of Service and Post Graduate Doctors Association.
