EAMCET - M = EACET

Hyderabad March 15: EAMCET means Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test but from now the M-medical exam is going remove from the EAMCET. Since from past years, the TS government conducted entrance exam for Engineering, Agricultural and Medical course.

State Government is planning to conduct the EAMCET in a central level like NEET.

The Centre has asked the Telangana government to conduct common medical counseling for admission to medical courses at under-graduate and post-graduate levels on the basis of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) score.

Aimed at curbing the practice of charging exorbitant capitation fees by private colleges, authorities said the NEET score will be the basis for medical admissions.

Following recent amendments made to relevant regulations of Medical Council of India (MCI) the state health university will conduct counselling for admissions in all medical colleges.

Now Eamcet score will not be considered for MBBS and BDS seats. However, seats for B Pharmacy, Pharma-D and BSc (Agriculture) and BSc (Home Science) will be filled through the Eamcet.

The move will be a blow to private medical colleges that allot 50 percent of seats under the management quota on its own either through a separate entrance test or through the direct process.

The NEET directive sent on March 12 to the state government will put an end to their backdoor policy, experts said.

The Union government had sent advisory for common counseling at the state level in December last year for admission to PG courses for the session 2017-18.

It, however, remained just a directive in the absence of necessary legal provisions. But with the recent amendments to the relevant Acts, the hurdles for common counselling will be cleared.