<p>The Centre on Monday approved lowering the cut-off marks for admission to PG medical courses for 2022-23 while taking into consideration that a large number of seats had gone vacant in the PG counselling held for the last academic session.</p>.<p>The reduction in cut-off marks will be by 25 percentile across all categories, official sources told<em> PTI.</em></p>.<p>The decision has been taken based on recommendations by the National Medical Commission (NMC), they said.</p>.<p>Around 1,400 seats had remained vacant mainly in pre- and para-clinical subjects in the last session, the sources said.</p>.<p>"Since such post-graduate seats going vacant is a sheer wastage of resources in a country where postgraduate medical seats are premium, a decision to reduce cut-off for admission to post-graduate courses for 2022 23 by 25 percentile across all categories has been taken," an official source said.</p>.<p>In a meeting held on October 14, the NMC recommended a reduction in the qualifying percentile for post-graduate courses for 2022.</p>.<p>Going by the reduction of cut-off marks by 25 percentile across all categories, the revised qualifying percentile/cutoff for general category candidates would be 25 percentile, for people with disabilities in the general category (PWD-general) it would be 20 percentile, and 15 percentile for both the SC/ST/OBC and people with disabilities in the SC/ST/OBC category, an official source said.</p>
<p>The Centre on Monday approved lowering the cut-off marks for admission to PG medical courses for 2022-23 while taking into consideration that a large number of seats had gone vacant in the PG counselling held for the last academic session.</p>.<p>The reduction in cut-off marks will be by 25 percentile across all categories, official sources told<em> PTI.</em></p>.<p>The decision has been taken based on recommendations by the National Medical Commission (NMC), they said.</p>.<p>Around 1,400 seats had remained vacant mainly in pre- and para-clinical subjects in the last session, the sources said.</p>.<p>"Since such post-graduate seats going vacant is a sheer wastage of resources in a country where postgraduate medical seats are premium, a decision to reduce cut-off for admission to post-graduate courses for 2022 23 by 25 percentile across all categories has been taken," an official source said.</p>.<p>In a meeting held on October 14, the NMC recommended a reduction in the qualifying percentile for post-graduate courses for 2022.</p>.<p>Going by the reduction of cut-off marks by 25 percentile across all categories, the revised qualifying percentile/cutoff for general category candidates would be 25 percentile, for people with disabilities in the general category (PWD-general) it would be 20 percentile, and 15 percentile for both the SC/ST/OBC and people with disabilities in the SC/ST/OBC category, an official source said.</p>