Srinagar, 24-Feb; The NEET Undergraduate- 2021 qualified students on Thursday staged a protest over the changes made in the seat matrix of NEET-2021 by the J&K Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE)The aggrieved NEET aspirants said that despite the continuous protest of the NEET aspirants who had opposed the changes in the matrix, the changes in seat had cost dearly for the OM candidates as only one-third of seats have been left available for OM candidates.“By curtailing seats from OM category, we have only 63 seats under the OM category at GMC Srinagar as 15 seats from OM have been allotted to EWS which is injustice with the open merit candidates,” the aspirant said.The candidates who fall in the Open Merit (OM) category are agitated over the changes made by BOPEE in the seat matrix as the BOPEE authorities have reduced seats from OM category which have been kept reserved for candidates from Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).“We have no problem if BOPEE has kept some seats reserved for EWS but these seats should have not been reduced from OM category. The officials could have adopted some other method and distributed seats of other reserved categories to EWS,” said an aspirant.Meanwhile, aspirants urged BOPEE to rollback the new seat matrix and allot seats to GMC Srinagar as per the previous seat matrix.(CNS)
