The studies would commence for the first batch of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) on September 14. The medical college was inaugurated on Saturday by the Chief Minister Harish Rawat.
The Principal of the GDMC, Dr Pradeep Bharati Gupta said that a student who had 1773 rank in the NEET- 2016 has opted for the college and he would be the first student of the college.
He added that many students who are allotted college in the All India counseling have started contacting the college. The Principal disclosed that 22 seats of the total 150 would be filled through the all India quota while 128 seats would be allotted from the state quota.
Apart from the GDMC Uttarakhand has Government Medical Colleges at Haldwani and 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 while remaining 85 percent seats are reserved for state quota.
The seats of state quota would be filled by the domiciled candidates of state and the process of counseling to fill these seats would start on September 03.
The on line counseling for all India quota for Under Graduate (UG) course of MBBS and BDS started on August 22 and results of round I were declared on August 27.
The candidates would be reporting to the allotted medical college on the basis of allotment in round I from August 28 to September 03.
A second round of allotment would take place from September 04 to fulfill the vacant seats if any in round one.