On Tuesday, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) granted 43 new exam centres across the country for the national eligibility cum entrance test (NEET), 2018 for undergraduate medical courses.
Union Minister of HRD Prakash Javadekar tweeted, all the cities from where 4,000 and more candidates have applied and which were not the centres in 2017 were added as centre cities for the NEET, which will be held on May 6, 2018.
The 43 new centres are:
- In Andhra Pradesh:
Kakinada, Kurnool, Nellore, Rajahmundry, Vizianagaram
- In Assam
Silchar, Tezpur
- In Gujarat
Godra, Patan, Valsad
- In Odisha
Angul, Balasore, Cuttack, Sambalpur
- In Maharashtra
Beed, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Latur, Mumbai-Suburban, Solapur
- In Tamil Nadu
Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur
- In Kerala
Alappuzha, Kollam, Kottayam, Malappuram, Palakkad
- In Telangana
Khammam, Ranga Reddy
- In Uttar Pradesh
Allahabad, Kanpur, Meerut
- In West Bengal
Burdwan, Hoogli, North 24-Pargana
- One each in Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh, Chhatisgarh
Bilaspur, Dharamshala, Udhampur, Jamshedpur, Bikaner, Amritsar, Dharwad, Roorkee respectively