GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
CHIEF SECRETARIAT (HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)
(G.O. Ms. No. 17, Puducherry, dated 13th June 2017)
NOTIFICATION
The Government has received representations from students and parents
that a sizeable number of Puducherry students aspiring to become Doctors could
not get M.B.B.S. seats during 2016-17 due to various unfavourable
circumstances. Further, to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET),
Government of India has notified that candidates are eligible for three attempts
and there have been representations that contrary to this scheme, some NEET
applicants who had earlier obtained admission to Engineering Courses through
CENTAC are ineligible for admission to M.B.B.S. courses due to the provision
in G.O. Ms. No. 60, dated 12-10-2015.
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Taking these aforementioned representations into consideration, these
guidelines are issued to enable the candidates of 2016-17 sponsored through
CENTAC for Engineering Courses but, who have now cleared NEET Examination
in 2017-18 to apply for M.B.B.S. Courses through CENTAC in 2017-18 as a
one-time measure, subject to the following conditions:-
(1) The candidate should have completed Higher Secondary Course
in 2015-16 and should have been sponsored through CENTAC for Engineering
Courses and pursued the first year of the Engineering Course in 2016-17.
(2) The candidate should have cleared NEET examination in 2017.
(3) The candidate studying I year Engineering Courses (B.E./B.Tech./
B.Arch.) in 2016-17 once selected to M.B.B.S., Course in 2017-18 will be awarded
the financial assistance under PKFAS at the rate admissible to him/her for that
course of study, if eligible, after deducting the assistance already in receipt of
the financial assistance, in accordance with the G.O. Ms. No. 57, dated 1-10-2013
of the Chief Secretariat (Education), Puducherry.
(4) The Government quota seats in Engineering Courses, so vacated
consequent to the present guidelines, will be filled by lateral entry as per rules.
(5) The Government reserves the right to take functional and operational
decisions for the admission of candidates as a onetime measure to M.B.B.S. Courses,
within the overall framework of the various existing Government Orders, as modified
from time to time.
(By order)
F.P. VERBINA JAYARAJ,
Under Secretary to Government (Education).
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