Faridkot, March 7: To fill about 400 postgraduate (MD/MS and diploma) seats in seven medical colleges of the state, the Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has authorised Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, to hold a centralised counselling.
The counselling will be held for admission on 50 per cent state quota seats in all government and private colleges, including private, deemed universities and minority institutions.
Last year, two minority medical institutions — Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, and Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar — had locked horns with the DMER and the BFUHS over their right to hold independent counselling to fill PG seats.
The DMER, this time, has sorted the matter well on time. The eligible candidates will apply only to the BFUHS on the basis of their rank in NEET (PG-2018). The last date of registration/application was March 20, said Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice-Chancellor. The schedule for counselling would be announced soon, he said.
The leftover NRI seats shall be merged with the general pool. For such seats, counselling will be held with the same merit. No fresh applications will be invited.
For in-service candidates (PCMS), incentive will be granted up to 30 per cent of total marks obtained in NEET (PG 2018).
