Children of defense personnel are no longer exempt from the UT pool

Children of defense personnel are no longer exempt from the UT pool

Synopsis: Under the new eligibility criteria, defense personnel or former military wards have a permanent address in Chandigarh to apply for MBBS registration with Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32 under the UT Pool. Must be. Previously, when applying for MBBS certification at Chandigarh’s UT Pool, the three residence requirements of Defense Forces / Old Service Stations were exempted. 

 On Tuesday, the UT administration removed all exceptions to Defense personnel and former military personnel in the MBBS admission criteria for the  Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Sector 32 “UT Pool” category. GMCH-32 is the only university in Chandigarh that offers MBBS courses. Of the university’s total of 150 MBBS seats, 15% are in all Indian quotas or the “central pool” and the remaining 85%  (115 seats) are in the “UT pool”. Central pool seats will be filled by the central government and UT pool seats will be filled locally by the Admissions Board according to the standards set by the UT administration. 

 To apply for admission to the UT Pool, candidates must be approved by the Chandigarh administration and have completed 10, 11, and 12 days at a school or university in  UT. Candidates whose parents have lived in Chandigarh for five years immediately prior to the application date are also eligible even if they do not meet the initial criteria. 

 The third criterion qualifies candidates whose parents are city government officials or central / state government officials representing Chandigarh. This includes employees working for autonomous companies/enterprises where the Chandigarh government holds an interest rate of 20% or more in the three years immediately preceding the application date, even if the above two criteria are not met. However, so far, these three residence eligibility requirements have been exempted in military / old soldier wards. 

 Academic sessions from 2021 to 22 found that out of a total of 115 seats in the UT pool, up to 20 Defense Forces Departments were admitted to MBBS due to eligibility exceptions. Some of them do not belong to Chandigarh or have never studied at a school or university in Chandigarh. 

However, under their new qualification criteria, when entering defense services, the station must consist of on-duty defense personnel or former military personnel who have a permanent  UT Chandigarh address in their work records and do not require the residence certificate from the relevant competent authority that serves as proof of this. However, the other three eligibility criteria for non-defense personnel remain the same. 

 Candidates in all four categories must submit an affidavit stating / affidavit that the candidate has not selected or claimed residence in a state / UT other than Chandigarh after the  NEET results have been announced. there is. 

 This decision was made after some people challenged the exception in the High Courts of Punjab and Haryana. Academic sessions from 2021 to 22 found that out of a total of 115 seats in the UT pool, up to 20 Defense Forces Departments were admitted to MBBS due to eligibility exceptions. Some of them do not belong to Chandigarh or have never studied at a school or university in Chandigarh. 

Of the 20 students, 4 met one of the three criteria, but due to an exception, 16 were included in the list of benefits. The Department of Defense is also eligible via the central pool. Because of these exceptions, these exceptions added unnecessary competition to UT children, but UT children have not been given other options. The issue was examined in detail and discussed in a series of meetings according to Yashpal Garg, UT health secretary.

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