After release of the merit list of the registered candidates for admissions in the Under Graduate (UG) course of State medical college on Monday, the HNB Uttarakhand Medical Education University (HNBUMU) started the first phase of counselling for allotment of seats on Monday. On the day, a meeting of the centralised counseling board was convened for allotment of seats for the first phase MBBS and BDS admissions.
The registrar of the university and member secretary of the board, Dr Ashutosh Sayana said that 545 seats in different medical and dental colleges are available under the state quota while 250 seats for All India/ management quota are available.
He said that the domicile candidates and those who have passed class X and XII from the state would be eligible for both state quota and management quota while who neither are domiciled nor have passed class X and XII from the state would be eligible only for management quota.
The online counseling for all India quota for Under Graduate (UG) course of MBBS and BDS started on July 16 and the candidates did on line registration and choice filling of indicative seat till July 21. The board released the merit list consisting of 8,674 candidates on July 22.
The student allotted seats in first phase of counselling should take admission by July 31. The second session of counseling would start on August 08. The university has released a helpline number for the students.