More BAMS, BHMS, BUMS seats: MUHS to open New AYUSH Colleges from 2021-22

Nashik: The premier Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has recently announced that it is going to open New Under Graduate Colleges in Ayurved, Unani & Homoeopathy Faculties from Academic Year 2021-22. With this, the state is about to get more BAMS, BHMS, and BUMS seats bringing major news to the AYUSH aspirants who intend to pursue these UG courses from the state based AYUSH colleges.

The confirmation to this effect came via a recent notice uploaded on the official website of MUHS where the varsity authorities clearly notified that Ministry of Ayush, Govt. of India, New Delhi has granted permission to the University to accept the new proposals for opening of new undergraduate colleges in the faculty of Ayurved, Unani & Homoeopathy.

Considering the permission, the varsity has invited proposals from the concerned managements who are interested in opening these institutes.

In view of the above, the Management who desire to Open New Under Graduate Colleges in Ayurved, Unani & Homoeopathy Faculties from the Academic Year 2021-22. As per section 64(3) of MUHS Act 1998, should submit their proposals in three copies in prescribed format along with the requisite fee (The fee should be paid in the form of demand draft of a Nationalized Bank / NEFT / RTGS / University E-payment Gateway drawn in favour of "The Registrar, MUHS Nashik" and payable at Nashik) to The Registrar, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, between 25 June 2020 to 31st October 2020 during the office hours in person only. The Proposal form should be submitted complete in all respect along with the documents as mentioned in the checklist. Incomplete applications will be summarily rejected and the Proposals received after 31 st October 2020 will not be accepted. The Proposals received by Post / Courier will not be accepted.

Institutions / Colleges those who had already applied in Academic Year 2018-19 & previous academic years for the opening of New Colleges, but could not obtain Essentiality / No Objection Certificate / Government Resolution (As applicable) from Maharashtra Government for that particular Academic Year, should apply every year for revalidation of the proposal by paying revalidation fee as prescribed in Affiliation fee Notification Such proposals can be revalidated up to 5 Academic Years (i.e. 6 years from the date of a recommendation of a proposal to the State Government.) After 6 years such proposals will be treated as closed and such institutes will have to apply a fresh along with the prescribed fee, the MUHS stated in the notice.

Those Institutions / Colleges who have received Consent of Affiliation of University in Academic Year 2018-19 & previous academic years for the opening of New College, but could not obtain Letter of Permission (LOP) from Central Government within 1 year from the date of its issuance, should apply for Extension of Consent of Affiliation by paying the fee as prescribed in Affiliation fee Notification. However, those institutions/colleges who have not received Permission from Central Government within 10 years from the date of recommendations of the proposal to the State Government, then that proposal will be treated as closed and such institute/college will have to apply a fresh with the prescribed fee, the notice added.

The varsity further clarified that if the proposal is Not Recommended to the State Govt. by the University, the fee will be refunded as follow:-

(i) If Institute / College claim the refund within 3 years from the date of the issuance of the letter by which the Non-recommendation is intimated, 50% of the amount of the deposited fee will be refunded.

(ii) If Institute / College claim the refund after 3 years but before five years from the date of the issuance of the letter by which the Non-recommendation is intimated, 30% of the amount of the deposited fee will be refunded.

(iii) If Institute / College claim the refund after 5 years from the date of the issuance of the letter by which the Non-recommendation is intimated, No Refund will be permissible.

5. (i) The information Booklet (ii) Faculty wise information (iii) The Perspective Plan for the period of 2017-2022 (iv) The Affiliation fee Notification No.42/2017 (v) The Proposal forms (Ayurved, Unani & Homoeopathy) are available on University Website i.e. http://www.muhs.ac.in.

Note: It may please be noted that the proposal for opening of new colleges should be as per the existing Perspective Plan of MUHS.

To view official notice, click on the link mentioned:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-130894.pdf