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Muktsar boy Navdeep tops NEET

NEW DELHI/MUKTSAR:Navdeep Singh from Muktsar in Punjab has topped the prestigious National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in the country, the result of which was declared by the CBSE today.

Muktsar boy Navdeep tops NEET

NEET topper Navdeep Singh with his proud father Gopal Singh in Muktsar on Friday. Tribune photograph



New Delhi/Muktsar, June 23

Navdeep Singh from Muktsar in Punjab has topped the prestigious National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in the country, the result of which was declared by  the CBSE today.

The second and third ranks were bagged by Madhya Pradesh’s Archit Gupta and Manish Mulchandani, respectively. Archit had also secured second rank in the AIIMS entrance examination.

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Kanishh Tayal (Haryana) stood seventh and Nikita Goyal from Bathinda eighth. Tanish Bansal (also from Punjab) got the 10th rank.

A total of 3,45,313 girls cleared the test against 2,66,221 boys. Eight transgenders sat for NEET 2017 and five qualified.

An important part of NEET 2017 was the quantum jump in the number of candidates. As against NEET 1 in 2016, the percentage increase in the number of candidates was 70.58. Navdeep, 18, wants to pursue MBBS at Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, one of India’s premier medical institutions. “I was confident of clearing the exam but not bagging the top rank,” the topper said. 

His father Gopal Singh is principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Charewan village, near Muktsar. “Since I am a teacher of physics, my son too developed an interest in science. It is my dream to make him a doctor,” said Gopal Singh.

Navdeep’s mother Simarjeet Kaur works with Life Insurance Corporation of India. Navdeep, who did his Class XII from Shivalik Public Senior Secondary School in Muktsar with 88 per cent marks, said he has two passions — studies and cricket.

A total of 11,38,890 students had appeared for the exam. Of these, 6,11,539 passed the test which was held on May 7.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had on June 12 set in motion the process of declaring the result of NEET-2017 after the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead. On May 24, the apex court stayed an interim order of the Madras High Court, which had restrained CBSE from publishing the result.

There are in all 65,170 MBBS seats in India and 25,730 BDS seats which will be filled on the basis of NEET merit.

 The following categories of UG medical and dental seats will have to be filled through the results  — All India Quota seats (15 per cent in all state government medical colleges), state government quota seats, state/management/NRI quota seats in all private medical and dental colleges and private deemed universities and all central pool quota seats. — TNS/PTI

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