Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh on Wednesday informed, “One candidate from East Jaintia Hills has been denied the seat because the deputy commissioner has reviewed the issuance of the provisional permanent residential certificate (PRC) and has deemed it fit to disqualify the candidate for not being eligible for the issuance of a PRC.”
She said that the seat will be duly accorded to the next person in the waiting list of the unreserved category.
The minister informed that after due processing of the list of eligible selected candidates for allotment of MBBS seats became controversial because of several details that were indicated to government at that point of time, the department had sent the provisional PRCs to the various districts giving them an instruction that henceforth, there shall be no more issuance of a provisional PRC.
Lyngdoh said that a PRC is a PRC. “We had vetted through the department of law and department of political and it was decided that all these provisional PRCs should be sent back to the DCs and the DCs should decide once and for whether or not these candidates were eligible or not eligible to be given the seats.”