Medical admissions go online

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, DEC. 9. The drudgery of long queues and painful procedures of admission into medical colleges have been completely eliminated from this year what with the introduction of a comprehensive online admission procedure.

A special software prepared by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) is being used in the medical admissions of this year currently on at Gandhi Medical College here. The software eases work load on counselling officers who have to go through the complexities of admissions like caste reservations, local area reservations, Government college, private colleges, free seats and paid seats.

The entire process of registration, seat selection, counselling and finally seat allocation are fully computerised by an online interactive software. Students now find it pretty easy to choose the college of their choice and the category of the seat as the availability position is displayed on the computer right in front of them.

For the candidates waiting for their turn, the seat allocation is being displayed through televisions inside the campus and the large screen projectors inside the auditorium. Despite sitting outside, they are well aware of the seat position and can plan their choice much earlier. ``It saves lot of time apart from reducing the anxiety of students and parents on the availability of seats. Now, they can enter the admission hall well prepared,'' pointed out, Prof. Shyam Sunder, Vice-Chancellor, NTR Health University.

Mr. C.S.R. Prabhu, State Informatics Officer, said 12 computers are being used for the counselling and five students can take admission at a time.

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