Medical Education Special ADMISSIONS
by Prabha Dhavala
T
he most common question asked
by parents at a recently held
education-cum-counselling fair
was “What is the eligibility
for an NRI seat?” Payal Sharma (name
changed), whose daughter is a domicile
of Haryana and has scored low marks in
NEET UG 2019, was attending the fair
to find out if her brother who was in the
US could be the sponsor for a seat in the
NRI quota.
Take the instance of Mr. Abdul Sheik
who lives in Dubai and whose family
resides in India. He wished to apply for
his son using his NRI status and wished
to know which documents he had to
keep ready for the same.
Since many years, one of the most
misused quotas in medical and dental
admissions has been the NRI quota.
With many states offering as many as
15% of the seats in private colleges
to NRIs at a fee almost five times the
regular ones, this category is a gate-
way for students who can afford the fee
to fulfil their dream of being a doctoreven if they have not scored well in
the entrance test. Not just the medical
admissions, NRI quota has been the
gateway to admissions in engineering,
management etc. for students who have
not performed that well in the entrance
exams and can afford the higher range
of fees.Who is an NRI?
A Non-Resident Indian would be the
obvious answer. For admission pur-
poses, a Supreme Court ruling on the
Consortium of Deemed Universities inEVERYTHING YOU
NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
NRI ADMISSIONS
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