Five Central Poll seats will be reserved for children of COVID-19 warriors who’ve lost their lives because of the virus, Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan announced on Thursday, 19 November.
According to the Health Minister, the reservation to be provided in MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Courses under the central quota, can be relevant withinside the educational 12 months 2020-21.
Who are included under COVID warriors?
This is how the Government of India defines COVID warriors as public healthcare workers:
Community fitness workers, who may also should be in direct touch and care of COVID-19 sufferers and who can be liable to being impacted via way of means of this.
Private health center personnel and retired, volunteer, nearby city bodies, contracted, daily-wage, ad-hoc, outsourced personnel requisitioned via way of means of states, primary hospitals, self sustaining hospitals of primary, states, Uts, AIIMS and Institutes of National Importance (INIs), hospitals of primary ministries drafted for COVID-19 associated obligations are all protected on this list.
How will those college students be selected?
The choice of applicants can be made via way of means of the Medical Council Committee (MCC) thru on line utility on the premise of rank received in NEET 2020 carried out via way of means of the National Testing Agency.
NEET is an clinical front examination carried out each 12 months for admissions to undergraduate MBBS and BDS courses. MCC holds counseling for 15 percentage of all India quota, whilst respective country committees behavior counseling for the eighty five percentage country quota.
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