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EXTRAORDINARY

Published by Authority

CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2024 (KARTIKA 28, 1946SAKA)

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GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

(EDUCATION-VII BRANCH)

NOTIFICATION

ADMISSION POLICY FOR 2 YEARS' D. El. Ed. DIPLOMA COURSE

(Session 2024-26)

The 5th November, 2024

No. SED-EDU7013/2/2023-EDUCATION-7/I/960473/2024.–Admission to two years’ Diploma in

Elementary Education (D. El. Ed.) Course in Government and Private affiliated institutions as per National

Council for Teachers Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations 2014 through combined Entrance

Test and combined merit, based on the result of the Entrance Test is to be undertaken by State Council of

Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Vidya Bhawan, School Education Board, Block-E, 6th Floor,

Mohali-160062.

ACADEMIC SESSION

The Academic Session 2024-26 will commence after the culmination of the admission process.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Candidates should have passed Graduation with minimum 50% marks in case of general category

and 45% marks in the case of Scheduled Castes / Backward Classes and Physically Handicapped

candidates from a recognized institution. No candidate with Re-appear /Compartment/ Result later

etc. in qualifying examination shall be eligible for admission.

Candidates must have passed Punjabi upto Matric level/ standard.

To ensure high quality standards, any candidate who has not passed in the subjects-English, Hindi,

Punjabi, Science, Social Studies and Mathematics in Class X Examination shall not be eligible for

admission to D.El.Ed course.

AGE LIMIT

Maximum age limit as on date of application for admission to the course for General Category candidate

will be 37 years’ (Government of Punjab Notification Department of personnel No.G.S.R.20/Const./Art.309 /

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Amd.(10)/2010 dated 24/05/2010) and Five years’ of relaxation shall be granted to SC/BC candidates and 10

years’ of relaxation for Physically Handicapped candidates.

RESIDENTIAL STATUS

The candidate must be Domicile of Punjab state.

DURATION

The D. El. Ed. Programme shall be of duration of two academic years; however, the students shall be

permitted to complete the programme within a maximum period of three years from the date of admission to the

programme.

WORKING DAYS

There shall be at least two hundred working days each year, exclusive of the period of examination

and admission

The institutions shall work for a minimum of 36 hours in a week, during which physical presence of

all the teachers and students is necessary in the institution to ensure the availability for advice,

guidance, dialogue and consultation as and when needed.

The minimum attendance of student teacher shall be 80% for all course work including practicum

and 90% for school internship.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Selection of the candidates will be done on the basis of merit in the Entrance Test. The minimum marks to

qualify this Entrance Test will be 50% in aggregate and 5% relaxation to qualify Entrance test will be given to

the reserve categories (Scheduled Castes/ Backward Classes and Physically Handicapped ), as per the guidelines

of the Government of Punjab. The Entrance Test will be conducted by SCERT Punjab. The date of Entrance

Test, syllabus and structure of the Entrance Test will be uploaded on the website of the Department.

RESERVATION

Category wise reservation in seats as per policy of states will be as follows

Sr. No.

Category

Reservation

General

39%

10%

SC (R & O)

10%

SC (M & B)

10%

General Ex-serviceman

BC Ex-serviceman

SC Ex-serviceman

General Freedom Fighter

General Sports

SC Sports

Physically handicapped

Economically Weaker Section

10%

MERGING OF SEATS

If no candidate is available against above mentioned of quota seats for particular category, those seats will

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be merged in last counselling as follows:-

Sr. No.

Category to be Merged in

Category of vacant seats

SC (R & O) and

SC Ex-serviceman (Vacant 50% seats to SC (R&O) and

SC (M & B)

50% seats to SC (M &B)

SC Sports (Vacant 50% seats to SC (R&O) and 50% seats

to SC (M &B)

General

General Sports

General Ex- serviceman

Economically Weaker Section

General Freedom Fighter

General Sports

Physically Handicap

BC Ex-serviceman

TIE

In case of a tie in merit of Entrance Test, preference will be given to a candidate older in age. In case of

further tie of such candidates, preference will be given to candidate having higher marks in graduation.

ONLINE APPLICATION & PROCESSING FEE

Rs.1000/- for General Category/BC/OBC/Freedom Fighter/Sports/EWS etc.

Rs. 500/- for SC/ ST / Handicapped Category

No Fee for Ex- Serviceman (Self)

COUNSELING, SCRUTINY AND VERIFICATION

Online counselling will be held for admission for the academic session 2024-26, consisting of three phases.

Director, SCERT, Punjab shall supervise the whole counselling/admission process. For every district a committee

shall be formed under the Principal of DIET, consisting of lecturer of that DIET and District MIS Co-ordinator.

This committee will ensure smooth completion of counselling process and shall scrutinize the documents of the

candidates who are provisionally allotted their institute through online centralized counselling. Three phases of

online counselling will be held to complete the admission process.

FILLING OF D.El.Ed. SEATS IN PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS

60% of seats in private institutions will be filled on the basis of combined merit of Entrance Test through

centralized online counselling by the SCERT, remaining 40% of seats of management quota of private institutions

shall be based upon the following criteria.

Candidates should have passed Graduation with minimum 50% marks in case of general category

and 45% marks in the case of Scheduled Castes/Backward Classes and Physically Handicapped

candidates from a recognized institution.

The minimum marks to qualify this Entrance Test will be 50% in aggregate and 5% relaxation to

qualify Entrance test will be given to the reserve categories (Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes /

Backward Classes and Physically Handicapped).

Information regarding the filled seats of management quota will be provided by the Self Financed

colleges to SCERT through online and offline mode within given time limit .No admission will be

considered after the last date given by department.

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In case above mentioned 60% of seats in private institutions are not filled in all three centralized merit

based counsellings conducted by SCERT, the vacant seats of the concerned private institute will be

allowed to be filled up by the private institutions themselves subject to fulfilment of minimum qualification

mentioned in this Notification from amongst only those who have qualified combined Entrance Test

as well as meet the minimum percentage in Graduation with the prior approval of the Director

SCERT.

FEES

The District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) and Private Self-Financed D. El. Ed. institutions

will charge fees as determined by the fee fixation committee and approved by the Department of School

Education, Govt. of Punjab:-

Sr. No.

Institute Type

Management quota

Counselling quota fee

fee per year (in Rs.)

per year (in Rs.)

Private Self Financed colleges

44000

40000

District Institute of Education

N/A

8500

and Training (DIET)

MIGRATION POLICY

For admission in D.El.Ed. course in Punjab, applications shall be sought online from candidates and the

counselling shall also be done online. Seats are allotted in various DIETs on the basis of merit in combined

Entrance Test. A migration policy has been framed to rationalize this process:-

•

This policy has been made keeping in view the need to implement the regular migration policy of the

department to ensure opportunity to the trainees in Punjab DIETs to get educational facilities near

their homes

•

Under this policy, the trainees studying in self financed (private) colleges affiliated with S.C.E.R.T.

will not be entitled to migration.

•

Under this policy, only the trainees of first year in D.El.Ed. course will be eligible for migration. The

trainees of second year in D.El.Ed. course will not be eligible for migration.

•

This policy will apply on mutual and single migration cases.

•

Single migration will be done purely on merit basis against the vacant seats In case the number of

applications in a category are more, migration will be done according to the merit.

•

Describing the available vacant seats in various DIETs till October 25, after the admission in the first

year for the purpose of migration of the trainees, a public notice will be issued on the website of the

department by October 31, in which details of category wise vacancies will be reported.

•

The trainees who want to get migrated will apply online by 10th of November.

•

Migration will be done according to the categories i.e. if a general category seat is vacant in DIET

then only a general category trainee will be migrated to that seat. The same applies to other categories

like SC category trainee is eligible for SC category seat, BC category trainee is eligible for BC

category seat, Ex Service man category trainee is eligible for Ex Service man category seat, Freedom

Fighter category trainee is eligible for Freedom Fighter category seat, Handicapped category trainee

is eligible for Handicapped category seat etc.

•

In mutual migration cases, both trainees will be migrated only after receiving written consent from

the concerned heads of the institution. This will also be done category wise.

•

The government holds the authority to give preference to the handicapped and trainees suffering

from chronic diseases.

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Students with long absence will not be considered for migration.

NO MID-TERM FILLING OF SEATS

There shall be no mid-term filling up of seats caused due to any reason whatsoever.

FALSE DOCUMENTS

The admission of any candidate found to have obtained on the basis of false, forged, fabricated or tampered

document shall be liable to be cancelled at any stage, besides registering a criminal case against him/her and

barring him/her for re-admission in D.El.Ed for a period of three years.

In case of any dispute, the final decision will be taken by the Director SCERT.

ADMISSION IS NO GUARANTEE TO EMPLOYMENT

Admission to government or privately run D. El. Ed. Diploma Course or passing of the said course shall

not confer any right to employment upon the recipient of such a diploma in the employment of the state or

elsewhere.

(KAMAL KISHOR YADAV)

Chandigarh

Secretary to Government of Punjab

The 4th November, 2024

Department of School Education

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