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No. 115 Poudouchéry Mardi 25 Juillet 2017 (3 Sravana 1939)
No. Puducherry Tuesday 25th July 2017
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
CHIEF SECRETARIAT
(HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION)
(G. O. Ms. No. 23, Puducherry, dated 21st July 2017)
ORDER
In pursuance to the amendment notification, dated 10th March, 2017 in the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 and Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 1997, it is now mandatory to have common counseling for admission to Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses in all Medical Educational Institutions in a State by the State Government or authority designated by the Government concerned. There shall be no exemption from common counseling and all Institutions established by the Central Government, State Government, University, Deemed University, Trust, Society or a Company, Minority Institutions Corporations (Private Medical Colleges). Accordingly, the Government of Puducherry, hereby makes the following regulations further to amend. 'The Pondicherry Private Professional Educational Institutions (Provision of Reservation, Admission of Students and Fixation of Fees) Regulations, 2006', namely:-
[1503]LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT [ PART-I 1504 1504 1. (i) These Regulations may be called 'The Pondicherry Private Professional Educational Institutions (Provision of Reservation, Admission of Students and Fixation of Fees) (Amendment) Regulation, 2017'.
(ii) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette of Puducherry.
2. In 'The Pondicherry Private Professional Educational Institutions (Provision of Reservation, Admission of Students and Fixation of Fees) Regulation, 2006', (hereinafter referred to as the said Regulations) in the heading 'Regulations', under clause 2, under the sub-heading 'Definitions', the existing sub-clauses (b) 'CENTAC' (g) 'General Category' and (h) 'Management Category' shall be substituted as follows, namely:-
"(b) 'CENTAC' (Centralised Admission Committee) means the Committee constituted by the Government for conducting the common entrance examination and/or counseling for allotment of seats to the Government Professional Educational Institutions and to General Category seats, Management Category seats or such seats as may be specified by the Government in Private Professional Educational Institutions".
(i) 'General Category Seats' means seats from out of the sanctioned intake of an institution not being seats in the 'Management Category', to be filled in the manner specified under clause 13 of the Regulations and as provided in the regulations or as agreed to by the Managements of Unaided Private Professional Institutions or as stipulated by the Government at the time of establishment of a Private Professional Educational Institution, a course therein.
(I) "Management Category seats' means Seats from out of sanctioned intake to be filled up by the Management in the manner as specified under clause 13 of the Regulations".
3. In the said Regulations, after the existing sub-clause (d), the following sub-clause shall be added namely:-
"(d-a) 'DGHS' means the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, the designated authority for counseling of 50% of All India Quota seats of the contributing States in the Postgraduate Medical Courses and 15% of All India Quota seats of the contributing States in the Undergraduate Medical Courses and medical Undergraduate seats in the Deemed Universities".
4. In the said Regulations, after the existing sub-clause (i), the following sub-clause shall be added namely:-
"(i-a) 'NEET or National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test means the test conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi on All India basis".
5. In the said Regulations, in Part-II, under the heading Admissions, in clause 1 3 under the sub-head ing 'Manner o f ad mission' fo r the existing sub-clauses, the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
(a) shall make admission to a seat under the 'General Category', on the basis of one or more qualifying examinations to be notified by the Government or on the basis of NEET rank or through an authority designated by it and in a manner prescribed by such authority.
PART-I ] LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT 1505(or)
(b) shall make admission to a seat under the 'Management Category in a fair and transparent manner through a Common Entrance Test, conducted in the Union territory of Puducherry by an Association of Private aided or unaided Professional Educational Institutions recognized and notified by the Government for the purpose;
6. In the said Regulations, after clause 13, the following new sub-clause shall be inserted, namely:-
"13.A. In the Unaided Private Medical and Dental Colleges, the courses namely M.B.,B.S., B.D.S., and the courses notified by the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), New Delhi, namely B.A.M.S., B.S.M.S., B.U.M.S., for the seats allocated under 'Management Category -Admission shall be conducted through the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) based on the NEET rank. Similarly, the admission of candidates to the seats allocated as ' M a n a g e m e n t C a t e g o r y a s we l l a s t h e ' G e n e r a l C a t e g o r y i n t h e Postgraduate Courses of the aforesaid Medical and Dental Courses shall also be conducted through CENTAC based on the NEET rank. The selection for Postgraduate course in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani systems shall be done through All India AYUSH Postgraduate Entrance Test (AIA-PGET) conducted by an authority designated by the Government of India.
7. In the said Regulations, for the existing clause 20 the following shall be substituted, namely:-
"20. The Private Professional Educational Institutions may reserve out of 'Management Category" certain percentage of seats not exceeding 15% for students from
NRI Category in accordance with the stipulations of National Regulatory Bodies such as MCI, DCI, AICTE and so on".
8. All other norms prescribed in 'The Pondicherry Private Professional Educational Institutions (Provision of Reservation, Admission of Students and Fixiation of Fees) Regulations, 2006' remain unaltered, except the composition of the Admission Committee' and 'Fee Committee' for Biology based courses coming under the purview of the Health Department and the Engineering based courses coming under the purview of the Education Department shall be as per G. O. Ms. No. 123, dated 18-12-2014 of the Chief Secretariat (Education), Government of Puducherry. The above amendment shall also be applicable mutatis-mutandis, in the CENTAC Information Bulletin issued for the academic year 2017-18 vide G. O. Ms. No. 12 dated 09-05-2017 of the Chief Secretariat (Higher and Technical Education), Puducherry (Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC)-Undergraduate Courses Information Bulletin, 2017-18).
(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)
F.P. VERBINA JAYARAJ, Under Secretary to Government (Higher and Technical Education).
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