MBBS Stray Vacancy Round: MCC issues Advisory for candidates

Through a recent notice, Medical Counselling Committee issued a notice regarding salient features for conduction of Stray Vacancy Round. The notice contains important advisory for students.

The notice regarding this along with the details of the original website of MCC is given:

All the participating candidates/institutes/colleges of Deemed Universities of Online Undergraduate (MBBS) seats counselling: 2018 are hereby informed that in compliance of direction passed by Hon’ble Supreme Court in W.P. (c) 267 of 2017 DAR-US-SLAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST AND ORS v/s MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA AND ORS dated 09.05.2017, a list of ten times of the vacant seats in order of merit has been provided to Deemed Universities for conduction of Stray Vacancy Round.

Colleges/Institutes/Universities kindly be noted that all the allotments made against the Stray Vacant Seats shall be in the order of merit and must be in a fair and transparent manner.

Further, conduction of Stray Vacancy Round is only for MBBS seats whereas for the BDS seats there will be additional 2nd Mop-Up Round to conducted by MCC/DGHS likely to start from 1st of September, 2018 onwards as per the Gazette Notification No. DE-22(13)-2018 dated 11th June 2018 (schedule uploaded on the website of mcc).

A lot of representation was also received by this office from colleges/institutes of Deemed Universities regarding conversion of vacant NRI seats to Management/Paid seats and Nationality of candidates from Indian to NRI.

In this regard, it is directed to all the colleges/institutes that conversion of seats from NRI to Management/Paid seats and Nationality of candidates from Indian to NRI may be done at their own level following the guidelines passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in W.P. (c) No.689/2017- Consortium of Deemed universities in Karnataka (CODEUNIK) & Anr. Vs. Union Of India & Ors.) Dated 22- 08-2017 and principles set out in Anshul Tomar (supra) case.

All the conversions made by the college for change of nationality are required to be reported at the email adgme@nic.in along with relevant documents.

All the colleges/institutes/universities also be noted that any legal complication arising out of the allotment made by the colleges during the Stray Vacancy Round are to be dealt by the respective colleges/ universities and individual college /institutes will be held responsible for any arising issue.