Medical and dental students stage a demonstration at Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Monday to demand cancellation of the freedom fighter quota system in medical admission. — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam Health ministry will scrutinise the certificates of 193 applicants who passed the medical admission test for the 2024-25 academic year, keeping their enrolment process on hold until the process ended.
The Directorate General of Medical Education made the disclosure in a notification on Monday.
It said the admissions policy of the Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council has decided to complete the admission process after verifying the list of candidates selected for quota seats of freedom fighters and backward communities by the central admissions committee and approving them.
The candidates who passed the test have been asked to be present at the directorate with certificates or proof in support of the quota between January 23 and 26 or between January 27 and 29.
The documents related to the quota of those initially selected in the quota have been requested to be sent via email on January 21.
Meanwhile, another notification from the ministry said the 5.0 per cent freedom fighter quota for admission to medical colleges would be applicable only to the children of freedom fighters as per existing rules.
It will not be applicable to their grandchildren or anyone else.
Out of 269 seats reserved under this quota, 193 candidates have passed the test. The remaining 76 seats have already been filled from the merit list.
The directorate will scrutinise the papers of 193 people initially selected in this quota. If any wrong or untrue information is found in it, the admission of the candidate concerned will be canceled.
All the admission-related activities of these 193 people will be suspended until this verification and selection process is completed, according to it.
Other activities of the medical college, including the admission of the remaining ones, will continue as usual.
The same day, special assistant to the chief adviser Prof Dr Sayedur Rahman told reporters at an event in response to student demonstration to omit quota in the test said the decision on whether there will be a freedom fighter quota in the test is up to the state.
He also confirmed that the ministry would scrutinise the 193 applicants passed under quota in medical admission.
Earlier, medical college students held a sit-in demanding the abolition of quota in medical and dental admission tests and the immediate cancellation and re-publication of the results.
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