MBBS admission: NTRUHS software putting reserved category students to disadvantage, alleges Liberation Congress Party
The Liberation Congress Party has alleged that Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences is using discriminatory software that disadvantages reserved category students in MBBS admissions. The party claims the system restricts BC, SC, and ST candidates from upgrading their admission category into open competition seats after the first round.
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Equity and fairness in higher education admissions software are critical for protecting affirmative action frameworks and ensuring transparent merit-based selections.
MBBS admission: NTRUHS software putting reserved category students to disadvantage, alleges Liberation Congress Party The system allows reserved-category candidates to upgrade their colleges, but prevents them from upgrading their admission category during subsequent rounds of counselling, alleges party leader Vijay Kumar VIJAYAWADA Former IAS officer and national president of the Liberation Congress Party Vijaya Kumar has alleged that Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS) is using specially designed software that disadvantages Backward Classes (BC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates in MBBS admissions by restricting their access to open competition seats from the second round of counselling onwards. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Mr. Vijay Kumar alleged that the software prevented eligible reserved-category candidates from securing open category seats based on merit, even when they had better ranks than candidates from other categories.
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