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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:-
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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 13 under the sub-heading 'Manner of admission' for 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.
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(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
'Management Category as well as the 'General Category in the
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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