After the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions in the medical colleges, the aspirants are waiting eagerly for the counseling for admission to start. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducted the NEET examination, released the much-awaited result a day in advance on Tuesday.
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 counseling which starts from August 22. 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 and the process of counseling to fill these seats would start on September 03.
The Director Medical Education, Dr Ashutosh Sayana told The Pioneer that rules of Government of India would be followed to fill the seats of State quota in the medical colleges here.
He informed that one seat each in all three Government medical colleges of Uttarakhand would be reserved for Kashmiri migrants.
Similarly on request of the Union Government the State medical education department has decided to reserve one seat each in all Government medical colleges for central pool. Under this quota the students of the north-eastern States which do not have medical colleges and some African nations can get admission.
The online counseling for all India quota for Under Graduate (UG) course of MBBS and BDS would start on August 22. The main counseling, registration, choice filling and indicative seat would occur from August 22 to 25.
The registration would open up to 5 pm of August 25. The aspirants would exercise their choice and lock it on August 25. The process of seat allotment (round I) would take place on August 26 and results of round I would be published next day.
The candidates would be reporting to the allotted medical college on the basis of allotment in round I from August 28 to September 3. A second round of allotment would take place from September to fulfil the vacant seats if any in I round.