more-in Justice Chitra Venkataraman of Permanent Admission Committee on October 10, 2016, which looked into complaints of irregularities in CENTAC admissions for 2016-17, had submitted a report to the Chief Secretary of Puducherry that the government take note of the serious lapses on the part of three medical colleges and the violation of directives of the Supreme Court, and take action in accordance with the law. She said that the committee has written to the Pondicherry University about the issues in the admission of NEET qualified candidates according to their merits, by the private medical colleges, requesting the university to take action in accordance with the law. She said: “It is noted that candidates who have not applied for admission in private medical colleges are given admission, whereas students who have officially applied in the private medical colleges were denied admission in the said college.” She added that “it is clear that students with high NEET percentile are denied admission unjustly, apparently on account of the students insisting on payment of fee as per the Fee Committee circular.” “Thus at the hands of the private medical colleges merit has become a casualty,” Ms. Venkataraman added.

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