NRI MBBS admission is under confusion for 2015 admission
On 16th January 2015, Medical Council India
has released one circular to all respective authority with indication that all
respective authorities need to conduct entrance test for admitting NRI students
for NRI seats admission. This circular has created major confusion to all the
students who are coming to get admission in India.
Till date, all NRI sets filled with simple merit base
with two category pure NRI or foreign student category and second is sponsored
NRI student seat. The procedure was simple and easy to get admission. But the
new circular has created major confusion among parents who wanted to get
admission in NRI seats and also among college management. This circular is not applicable to government
medical colleges as they do not admit NRI students except Madhya Pradesh state
government.
There are many college managements who did not aware
about this circular. Those who aware, do not clear about how to conduct entrance
test for NRI students.
There are few advantages to NRI students even out of this
concept of entrance test. As previously students need to apply with multiple application
to different colleges and look for preference. After entrance there will be
common merit list for one state and depending on merit student will get
admission. Easy one window system of admission will be good for all.
Automatically students will able to know that best college in state. All
colleges will try to improve their quality of education and facilities on
campus.
There are few initial teething problems like who will
conduct the test; what will be the process of conducting test as majority of
students are living all over world; will it be physical test or online test and
who will be authority for test. These are few problems for this year only. Soon
all colleges and authorities will find out solution. It was also heard that few
authorities filed case in high court and Supreme Court for not to implement
this process from this year.
Times of India on March 12, 2015 reported that Pointing out challenges in conducting special entrance
tests, Manipal University (MU) registrar GK Prabhu said, "The main issue
is how do we set the test for foreign students. Is it online or offline because
they cannot personally come down to write entrance tests?"
Manipal University plans to petitition the MCI
about these challenges, Prabhu said. MU receives around 350 applications from
NRIs every year and admits 75 of them to MBBS.
Till now, deemed universities have been admitting NRI students to MBBS based on
the marks obtained in their class 12 or other qualifying exams. Dr Basavana
Gowdappa H, principal of JSS Medical College, Mysuru, said, "We are
stranded and there is no clarity in MCI's directive. When deemed universities
and private colleges have been providing MBBS seats to NRI students on merit
basis all along, why do we need an entrance test for them now?"
JSS University is writing to both MCI and the
state government seeking clarity on the process for admitting NRI students to
MBBS.
