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PANAJI
Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, on Friday, assured the parents of students seeking admissions to the MBBS course at the Goa Medical College that the admission schedule for the professional courses would be released by the directorate of technical education (DoTE) by next week.
The parents had called upon the Chief Minister at the Secretariat and expressed concern as regards the delay in the release of this schedule.
Earlier, Parsekar, who also holds the education portfolio, told the pressmen that this year, the Goan students would be admitted to the medicine and dentistry courses solely on the basis of their performance at the Goa Common Entrance Test 2016. “The admissions to these courses would be given by July 2016,” he added, further stating that the admissions to the medicine and dentistry courses, under all India quota, would however be given as per the National Eligibility Entrance Examination (NEET).
Incidentally, the directorate of technical education does not draw merit lists course-wise, that is one list for medicine, another list for dentistry, and so on. It only draws two lists based on the subject combinations – one for collective marks in physics, chemistry and biology subjects, while the other for collective marks in physics, chemistry and mathematics subjects.
Following the completion of process of accepting forms, on May 27, the directorate of technical education started the work of preparing the PCB and PCM lists.
The first round of admissions to the professional courses in Goa was supposed to be held from June 16 to June 24, while the second one from July 18 to July 21, and if need be, then the third round of admission be held after notifying about the same through the newspapers, as per the information given by Dr Deepak Gaitonde, the chairperson for admissions.
The release of admission schedule has however been delayed by the department of technical education.