Is current NEET PG Counselling process full of LUCK and GAMBLING?

Abstract

ABSTRACT Each year, many students attempt the NEET PG entrance exam and then attend the counselling process to get admission in PG. However, each year, we see a lot of issues and delays in the counselling process. All these lead to the PG counselling process having some very confusing rules, and it causes a great deal of confusion and uncertainties among the students, while selecting for their deserved PG seats and attending subsequent rounds. The element of LUCK plays a significant role in allocation of PG seats. Issues like a single candidate blocking multiple seats in state and All India rounds, non-synchronisation between All India and state rounds, delay in some individual state rounds, court cases, addition or deletion of seats in the counselling process, and so on are frequent in each year’s counselling process. The factor of LUCK plays a big role in somebody getting or not getting a seat. This should be completely eliminated. Simple measures like fixing the accountability, management of loopholes of the counselling process beforehand, hearing about any court cases, proper and fixed information about availability of seats in each college way before the starting of the counselling process, keeping real-time data on seats retained or left, synchronised counselling, or possibility of offline centralised counselling are some of the cost-effective impartial methods. These methods will help the students to make informed choices and reduce the element of LUCK from the counselling process. After such hard work, students deserve a counselling process which ensures less uncertainty and no role of luck and eliminates any unfair advantage/disadvantages because of faulty procedures and system issues. If such issues happen each year, it is fair to say that it is because of its sheer ignorance and in-decisions by the officials to improve the counselling process.