3 students from districts share top spot in medical rank list

This year the trio of Aadithya Mahesh, Vignesh V from Thiruvaiyaru (Thanjavur district) and Gnanavel EJ belonging to Pallipat (Thiruvallur district), all scored 200 out of 200.  Vignesh has been ranked second and Gnanavel, third. Aadithya is a student of Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Vignesh pursued Class 12 at Ideal Higher Secondary School, Erode and Gnanavel studied at Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh). 

State Health and Family Welfare Minister C Vijaya Baskar released the rank list for medical counselling on Friday. Twenty students scored 199.75 cut-off this year. Additional director of medical education and secretary of selection committee G Selvarajan said that the rank list of students had been uploaded onto “www.tnhealth.org” website where candidates could check the rank they had secured. 

The tentative seats available in 20 government medical colleges in the state are 2,650 MBBS seats, of which 397 seats (15 per cent), would be allotted under All India quota. Tamil Nadu has six private medical colleges with 760 seats (including 290 for management quota), two ESIC medical colleges with 100 seats (including 35 seats each for All India quota) each. 

The state has a total of 28 medical colleges with 3,610 seats, of which 2,853 are under the Tamil Nadu state quota. As many as 26,017 students registered for the state counselling for MBBS/BDS this year out of which 25,379 were considered eligible to attend counselling. Girl aspirants (16,361) are higher than boys (9,017) this year. 

A transgender candidate too had applied. A total of 23,966 medical aspirants are from Tamil Nadu state board, 1,158 (CBSE), 129 (ISCE) and 126 (others). About 3,266 students who had completed class 12 in previous years have also applied this year and 9,401 candidates are first generation graduates.

(1) Aadithya Mahesh

“My dream of studying at Madras Medical College is close to becoming a reality. I am glad that I can serve society in the field of medicine. I want to thank my teachers and family for their help”.

(2) Vignesh V

"My father is a TNSTC bus driver. I always dreamt of getting into Madras Medical College and become a kidney specialist. This is my dream come true and I want to serve society".

(3) E Gnanavel

"I owe this rank to my family that stood by me through my two years of hard work. Medicine is an inspiring profession and am glad I chose it. If you are determined, you can scale any height".