The counselling for admissions in the MBBS and BDS courses in the medical and dental colleges of State started on Sunday afternoon. These admissions would be from the merit list of National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination (NEET) - 2017. The selected candidates have started doing online registration and the choice filling on the official website of the university. On the first day the candidates faced problems as the website was very slow to open.
The director Medical education, Dr Ashutosh Sayana said that the on line counselling for all India quota for Under Graduate (UG) course of MBBS and BDS started on July 16. The candidates can do on line registration and choice filling of indicative seat till July 21. He informed that the centralized counselling board would allot seats of first phase on July 24. Dr Sayana clarified that the student allotted seats in first phase of counselling should take admission by July 31. He said that the candidates can log on to the official website of HNB medical education university, www.hnbmu.ac.in for registration and other related information. The second session of counselling would start on August 08. The university has released a helpline number for the students. They can call on the numbers 0135-273321 and 8194093305 from 10 am to 5 pm and take technical and other help.
In Uttarakhand there are three government medical colleges, the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) Dehradun, the Government Medical College Haldwani and the Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical College, Srinagar. The GDMC has 150 MBSS seats while the ones at Srinagar and Haldwani have 100 seats each. Apart from them the Sri Guru Ram Rai (SGRR) Medical College Dehradun and Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT) are private medical colleges and have 150 seats each. It is worth mentioning here that the these medical colleges have 15 percent seats reserved for All India quota and these seats would be filled by All India counselling.
The medical colleges of the state have 85 percent seats reserved for State quota; these seats would be filled by the domiciled candidates of state. One seat each in three government medical college is kept reserved for Kashmiri migrant.