Vijayawada, April 26: The counselling for the post-graduate medical courses of the Dr NTR University of Health sciences scheduled to commence from today have been postponed to April 28.
Earlier, the university vice-chancellor IV Rao said “The counselling was delayed as we are yet to get a clarification from the government over the High Court order against a petition filed on April 15 by four students from the Osmania region.”
The court had issued orders directing the varsity to first fill up 85 per cent seats with local candidates and fill up the rest 15 percent seats with non-local candidates.
The vice-chancellor said they would commence counselling after 2 pm, once they received clarification about the order from the principal health secretary.
But after they did not receive any response by evening, university authorities were forced to postpone the counselling to April 28.
Mild tensions prevailed at the university premises, as students and their parents raised slogans against the authorities for postponing the counselling without prior intimation.
They were visibly upset after being forced to wait under shamianas in the heat when the varsity authorities failed to commence the counselling at 9 am.
As the session did not start even after 1 p.m, many students and parents were seen shouting at the staff for lack of information and the delay.
The first ranker in the PG entrance examination and other top rankers expressed concern after the counselling was postponed.
Students who came from far off places are now in a dilemma whether to return to their native place or stay back.
Many students said the authorities should have announced about the decision earlier.
It must be noted that the NTR University of Health Sciences issued a notification for counselling for PG medical courses on April 20.
As per the notification, authorities said selection of candidates would be according to orders in the GO no. 74.
The unreserved seats would be calculated course-wise and area-wise and allocation done in proportion to seats in an institution as per GO no 93.
Final selections would then be done as per provisions laid down in GO no 646.
–Agencies