1,000 ‘missing’ medical & dental seats to be added to second round by Maharashtra CET | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Three days after 1,000 medical and dental seats were removed from the first round of admissions by the state CET cell as the colleges did not get requisite permissions, these seats will now be added to the second round. The second list is expected on August 17.

These eight medical and dental colleges, which were not included in the state’s first merit-cum-allotment list, failed to get Maharashtra University of Health Sciences’ (MUHS) affiliation for not having enough teachers on board.
MUHS pro-vice-chancellor Milind Nikumbh, in a statement to the media, mentioned that the colleges did not have adequate numbers of teachers on board. Representatives of these colleges have assured that they will take necessary action to meet the deficiencies.

Considering students’ interest, the university has extended affiliation to these colleges, said the statement.
MUHS affiliation to 8 colleges brings relief to med aspirants
Of the eight colleges which failed to get Maharashtra University of Health Sciences’ (MUHS) affiliation for not having enough teachers on board, seven were medical and one was for dental.
One of the colleges, MGIMS-Wardha, is a government institute. The private colleges included Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences (Palghar), Dr NY Tasgaonkar (Karjat), Terna (medical and dental colleges in Navi Mumbai), ACPM-Dhule, SSPM in Sindhudurg and Dr Punjabrao Deshmukh Medical College, Amravati. MUHS sent a revised list of affiliated colleges to the CET cell on Monday, including these eight colleges.
Following the MUHS circular, the CET cell issued a fresh notification, stating that these seats will be added to the second allotment list. Though the schedule for the second round is not yet officially released, parents are expected it to come out on August 17, after the all-India second round ends. Addition of these seats in the second round will come as a relief to students, who were worried about higher cut-offs in private colleges in the first round.
Students who were on the borderline cut-offs for government and private colleges should have patience till round 2 now, as the 900 MBBS seats will lead to some drop in the cut-off, said parent representative Brijesh Sutaria. The total seats in government and private colleges available under state counselling is 7,344.
Parents, however, were agitated with the lack of coordination between government agencies, leading to confusion at the eleventh hour. The seat matrix released by the CET cell on July 31 had included these 1,000 seats, leading to many students filling it in their preference forms.
Last year, too, the first round for PG admissions did not have all the seats available in the seat matrix, a year before that, around 650 seats were missing from the first allotment list for undergraduate admissions.