The Telangana Junior Doctors' Association (TJUDA) has launched a campaign to urge the state government to allow 50% of its 1,140 postgraduate medical seats and 15% of its 2,550 MBBS seats to be made available for open competition in the central pool. With this, TJUDA argues, local students would be allowed to compete for the huge number of medical seats available across the country under the central pool.
"The central pool concept is done on a reciprocal basis between the Centre and the states. Under this rule, the state earmarks a certain percentage of medical seats for students from the rest of India and in return, local students of that state are allowed to compete for the central pool seats," said Dr G Srinivas, TJUDA state president.
Presently, the Centre holds the All India PG Medical Entrance exam (taken by MBBS passouts) and All India Pre Medical and Pre-Dental (taken by 10+2 passouts) tests every year to fill 17,334 PG seats and 43,640 MBBS seats in government and private colleges.
Since the last two decades, this huge 'central pool' is not open to students from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh due to continuation of Article 371(D) of the constitution, which prohibits outsiders from competing for local seats.
TJUDA argues that this is going against them in the long run as they are not able to try their luck in top-notch colleges such as Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, Lady Hardinge Medical College (Delhi), St. Johns Medical College, Madras Medical college,
and Stanley Medical College among others.
"The restriction imposed by 371(D) on the central pool seats
needs to go at the earliest or we would lose heavily. This is especially true for Telangana, as the state has very few medical seats to offer," said a student.
For instance, as against 1,986 PG general surgery seats available for MBBS passouts all over India, those from Telangana can compete only for the 92 seats every year.
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