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HYDERABAD: Ahead of the post-graduate medical admissions, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has launched an online information system from academic year 2017-18 to weed out illegal admissions in medical colleges.

A notice was issued by MCI on April 17 directing them to ensure that the admissions are made following parameters based upon the judicial decisions and MCI regulations. “In order to effectively monitor all admissions made in courses of medicine are in conformity with the requirement of regulations, an online monitoring system has been launched by the council,“ reads the notice. It further states that the initiative is made with the objective of ensuring faithful adherence to the norms of admission laid down in regulations as also to promote further transparency and accountability in the medical education.

In the online system, all colleges have to submit the requisite data of all students admitted in PG (broad and super-speciality) from May 20 onwards. While the online monitoring system will be open for broad speciality course on May 20, the same for super-speciality course will be open on August 20. “Medical collegesinstitutions must submit their student's admission details latest by June 7, 2017 for broad speciality and September 7, 2017 for super-speciality courses beyond which the collegesinstitutions will not be allowed to enter the details,“ states the notice.

In the OMS, colleges have to enter details such as course name, sanctioned intake capacity , no of recognised seats, no of permitted seats, total no of seats, date of admission, name of the student, NEET score etc.

Until last year, several colleges took admissions in the management quota without considering merit-system.But this year, the MCI has directed all colleges to give admissions strictly in accordance with merit and in a transparent and fair manner. “Any violation shall lead to discharge of the concerned student from the courses and such action against the concerned medical collegeinstitution as is permissible in law,“ states the notice.

