Fresh JEE for SC, ST students in Tripura

Updated on: Tuesday, September 13, 2011

An all party meeting resolved to conduct a fresh Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates for admission to the vacant seats of the Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC), official sources said.

Two seats for SCs and 27 seats for STs remained vacant as the candidates could not secure 40 per cent marks in the Joint Entrance test, the minimum requirement for admission to any medical college as per the guideline laid down by Medical council of India (MCI), the sources said.

Tripura Higher Education Minister Anil Sarkar said to resolve the standoff over admission in reserved seats in AGMC, a fresh Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on PCB group will now be conducted by September 24.

Sarkar said ST/SC students who had secured 40 percent marks in this years Higher Secondary (+2) examinations would be allowed to appear in the fresh JEE.

"The all-party meeting, which met today following request from the council of ministers, was in favour of holding fresh JEE on PCB group for ST/SC students”, he said.

Earlier, the all-party meeting decided to review the results of this years Joint Entrance Examinations. But the Council of Ministers had discussed various options to get over the impasse and referred the matter to the all-party committee.

Sarkar said that the last decision of all-party committee would be conveyed to the Medical Council of India (MCI) very shortly.

The government was in favour of completing the admission process by September 30, a day before the last scheduled time for admission to MBBS course.

Fresh JEE for SC, ST students in Tripura

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