WBMCC issues notice on conduct of PG AYUSH Admissions 2021, Details

West Bengal : Through a recent notice, the WBMCC has notified about the detailed conduct for PG AYUSH admissions this academic year.

Admission to the West Bengal PG Ayush State Quota, seats 2021 in the affiliated institutes of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) shall be made on the basis of the inter se merit lists of the "Status" [Unreserved (UR); Economically Weaker Section (EWS); Other Backward Classes (OBCA and OBCB); Scheduled Caste (SC): Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Person with Disability (PwD).

In order to be eligible for admission to any PG Ayush course in 2021 admission session, it shall be necessary for an unreserved or EWS candidate to obtain minimum marks at 50th percentile in AIAPGET 2021 as provided by NTA unless there is reduction of cut off by NTA or Govt. of India during the counseling process However in respect of candidates belonging to SC,ST,OBC-A,OBC-B the minimum marks shall be at 40th percentile unless there is reduction of cut off by NTA or Govt. of India during the counseling process. For benchmark PwD candidates the minimum marks shall be at 45th percentile for unreserved/EWS and 40th percentile for SC/ST/OBC¬AJOBC-B candidates unless there is reduction of cut off by NTA or Govt. of India during the counseling process.

In reservation of seats for SC. ST, OBC-A. OBC-B candidates. policy expressed in the West Bengal State Higher Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2013 will be followed for seats in Govt Ayush Colleges leaving aside share of SC and ST candidates till share of OBC reaches 10% for OBC-A and 7% for OBC-B If OBC category candidates belonging to non creamy layer have their OBC certificate issued before 1st April 2020, then they shall have to submit non creamy layer income certificate issued on or after 1st April 2020 by the OBC certificate issuing authority.

The caste certificate issued/ validated in the State of WB will only be considered for allotment of reserved category SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B seats of State Quota. The OBC candidates belong to creamy layer shall have to exercise option in counseling as unreserved category. The OBC candidates claiming non creamy layer status but failing to submit appropriate non creamy layer income certificate shall have to exercise option in counseling as unreserved category. The candidates claiming reserved category but failing to submit certificate issued/ validated in the State of WB shall have to exercise option in counseling as unreserved category. 

Five percent of seats of State Quota shall be filled up by benchmark PwD candidates before their inclusion in the seats for respective UR/EWS/SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B candidates. The benchmark PwD certificate must be issued from Medical Board of IPGMER Kolkata. This is as per erstwhile MCI gazette notification, dated 4th February 2019, bearing Memo no MCI-34(41)/2018-Med./170045 which is in accordance with the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disability Act 2016.

Tenure of training period is 3 completed years for Ayush PG Degree from the date of joining in the course. Any candidate who has completed any other PG Ayush course or is pursuing any other such course is not eligible for counseling.

Admission to PG Ayush Degree course will not be allowed unless the candidates have got themselves registered with concerned Ayush council at State/Central level.

Discontinuation of course at any time after admission before completion of the course tenure will attract penalty of Rs. 1 lakhs for Ayush PG Degree seats.

There is provision for stating caste status/EWS status and Person with Disability (PwD) status afresh during WB PG Ayush 2021 counseling. The option exercised regarding category of candidature, Caste, EWS status and Person with Disability (PwD) status during the AIAPGET 2021 counseling will be verified during admission and if found appropriate as per State rule, will be considered for admission of such reserved category seats. Therefore, applicant will have to be very particular and cautious during filling up of online form for counseling. There is no scope for correction of mistake made by a candidate later.

The West Bengal Medical Counseling Committee, Dept of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal, would prepare a combined merit list of applicants in counseling.

Allotment shall be based on AIAPGET 2021 rank of the applicant candidate. Candidate/s who fails to get enrolled in earlier round must remember that when he/she enrolls in a particular round later on followed by fee payment and registration the allotment can be made only from the available vacancies for that round only. Candidate cannot claim for a seat which was allotted in an earlier round where that particular candidate failed to enroll/register/fill up appropriate choices as the case may be.

If the candidate has done any previous degree in PG Ayush, then he/she is not allowed to participate in WB PG Ayush 2021 counseling.

The counseling steps in nutshell:-

A.) Round 1 counseling:

• It may be mentioned here that individual eligible and AIAPGET 2021 qualified candidate can enroll, pay fee, register and put up choice during Round 1 of the Counseling. After the choices are placed and saved, the choices shall have to be locked by the candidates as only the locked choices for that particular round shall be processed for seat allotment as per inter-se-merit of the candidates.

• After allotment, the allotted candidate needs to attend the concerned college physically with original credentials and one set self attested photocopy of documents along with the stipulated fee for the college for document verification, After successful verification the candidate shall be admitted in the college and system generated admission letter shall be handed over to the admitted candidate by the concerned college.

• During the admission process of round 1, the admitted candidate shall be asked to provide willingness for participation in subsequent round at the allotted college. If the willingness is affirmative. then only the candidate remains eligible to participate in round 2.

• The candidate who has not been allotted or not reported for admission in round 1 or not provided choice in round 1 are also allowed to participate in round 2.

• Along with this. there shall be provision for fresh enrollment, fee payment and registration for the AIAPGET 2021 qualified eligible candidate for round 2, who have not done so due to any cause during the round 1 counseling.

• The candidates who have not qualified in AIAPGET 2021 as per the cut off marks provided by the NTA vide revision of scores notice dated 13.01.2022, are not allowed in counseling process. UR/EWS cut off score is 109: SC/ST/OBC cut off is 93; UR PwD/EWS PwD cut off 106; OBC PwD cut off 95. If cut off is subsequently reduced by NTA/Govt of India, then only such candidates shall be allowed for counseling as per revised cut off provided by NTA/Govt of India.

• The eligible and qualified candidates who fail to register for round 1 or subsequent round as the case may be (even if they have enrolled and paid counseling fee successfully) are not allowed to participate in round 1 counseling or subsequent round.

B.) Round 2 counseling:-

Already registered candidate in Round 1 who have filled up choice in round I and were allotted and admitted in Round 1 and provided Willingness for participation in  Round 2 are allowed to participate in round 2.

• Already registered candidate in Round 1 who filled up choice in Round 1 but were not allotted in Round 1 due to inter se merit position aro allowed to participate in Round 2.

• Candidate who was AIAPGET 2021 qualified and successfully registered in Round 1 but failed to provide choice during Round 1, are allowed to participate in  Round 2.

• The opportunity for enrolment, pay fee and register for eligible and qualified AIAPGET 2021 candidates who have not done it during round 1 counseling doe any cause, shall be again allowed during round 2 counseling.

• The candidates who were allotted in Round 1 but were not reported in the ailriftei institute for admission, they are allowed free exit that is they are allowed to participate in the round 2 counseling without penalty that is, they are not required to enroll/pay fee/register again during round 2 counseling. They can straight away go for fresh choice filling during round 2 counseling.

• The candidates, whose allotted seats were cancelled in round I due to inadequate documentation but still remained eligible for subsequent round with changed candidature, are allowed in round 2 counseling for choice filling straight away with changed candidature status.

• Non registered candidate till Round 2 or, registered candidate who have not filled up choice in Round 2 are not allowed in Round 2 counseling.

• Registered candidate who have got admission in Round 1 and not provided willingness to participate in Round 2 during the admission process at the allotted institute, are not allowed in Round 2 counseling.

• The candidates who have surrendered seats after admission in round 1 are not allowed to participate any further in counseling including Round 2 They are out of the counseling process.

• Candidates who have admitted/joined the allotted seat in Round 2 and further rounds of counselling will not be allowed to resign/surrender and will also be ineligible to take part in further rounds of any type of counselling.

• The candidates, whose allotted seats were cancelled in round 1 due to failure in submission of essential documents (domicile), are out of the counseling process and they are not allowed to participate any further in counseling.

• The willingness for participation in subsequent round shall not be available during round 2 admissions or during any further rounds of admission process.

C.) Mop up round counseling (online provided seats still remaining vacant):-

• The opportunity for enrolment, pay fee and register and fresh choice filling for eligible and qualified AIAPGET 2021 candidates, who have not done it during round 1 and round 2 counseling due to any cause, shall be again allowed during Mop Up counseling.

• The candidates, who remain not allotted till round 2, are allowed to participate in Mop Up straight away by fresh choice filing.

• Already registered candidate in Round 1 or Round 2 who failed to provide choice during the round/s are allowed to participate in Mop Up.

• The candidates, whose allotted seats were cancelled in round 1 due to inadequate documentation but still remained eligible for subsequent round with changed candidature, are allowed in Mop Up counseling for choice filling straight away with changed candidature status.

• The candidates, whose allotted seats were cancelled in round 2 due to failure in submission of essential documents (domicile), are out of the counseling process and they are not allowed to participate any further in counseling.

• The candidates who remain not reported during round 2 counseling are allowed to participate in mop up counseling but with penalty that is they have to pay counseling fee afresh and register afresh before being eligible for choice filling in mop up counseling (online). However, they are not allowed to change the credentials provided during enrollment stage of earlier rounds.

• Non registered candidate till Mop Up round or, registered candidate who have not filled up choice in Mop Up are not allowed in Mop Up counseling.

• The candidates who remain admitted after round 2 counseling, are not allowed any further for participation in mop up counseling or further counseling.

D.) Stray vacancy round counseling (online provided seats still remaining vacant):-

• No fresh enrollment, fee payment or registration is allowed in stray vacancy round. Only the candidates, who are already registered and not allotted /not reported till mop up round, are allowed for choice upgradation in stray vacancy round provided they have put up fresh choice during mop up round of counseling.

The candidates, whose allotted seats were cancelled in Mop Up round due to failure in submission of essential documents (domicile), are out of the counseling process and they are not allowed to participate any further in counseling.

• Non registered candidate till Mop Up round or, registered candidate who have not filled up choice in Mop Up are not allowed in stray vacancy round.

• If still some seats remain vacant due to any cause, then the already registered and non allotted candidate list not less than 10 times the pooled stray vacancy shall be forwarded to the concerned colleges for allotment cum admission (offline mode). The details of such mode of stray vacancy fill up process shall be notified in due course if required.

Online counseling (steps details):-

Step 1 (online enrolment):-

• There will be provision of online enrolment for participation in PG Ayush Counselling West Bengal State Quota 2021. Candidates qualified through AIAPGET 2021 conducted by NTA and eligible to participate in West Bengal State quota online counseling for PG Ayush seats 2021, are herby requested to apply through online link in the website https://wbmcc.nic.in strictly within scheduled time. Candidates who fail to enroll will forfeit candidature for such online counseling.

• The qualified and eligible candidate out of AIAPGET 2021 will put his/her Roll No. Candidate name and Father's Name in the on-line system. The record should match with the data provided by NTA.

• The candidate has to provide domicile information or whether such candidate studied UG Ayush course from West Bengal has to be informed by the candidate. Only such candidate who is either domicile of WB or studied UG Ayush course in WB is eligible for WB PG Ayush 2021 counseling.

• The caste status, EWS status and PwD (Person with Disability) status would be asked to provide afresh. Candidates who belong to SC, ST, OBC, EWS categories will be asked whether their caste certificates are issued/validated by authority in West Bengal. If not, they will be considered as Unreserved during seat allotment process of online counselling. The OBC Candidates whose certificates are issued in West Bengal will be required to select sub caste as OBC A or OBC B as applicable. Once selected the caste specific answers by candidates cannot be modified. For claiming seats under OBC-A and OBC B, the candidate has to submit non-creamy layer Certificate issued on/after 01.04.2020 by the same authority who issued OBC-A/OBC-B certificate, unless the OBC-A/OBC-B certificate has been issued on/after 01.04.2020; otherwise he/she will not be considered as under OBC-A / OBC-B category for seat allotment.

Step 2 [Payment of requisite fees, obtaining transaction ID and then generation of acknowledgement Receipt]:-

• The qualified and eligible candidates through AIAPGET 2021 after online enrolment will be directed to online payment system. The amount of payment of fees for counseling is RS-3000/- (Three thousand only) which is one time and non refundable and to be paid by on-line mode only. Bank transaction statutory charges if any will be in addition. The online deposition can be done through net banking or credit/debit card system. If the payment is successful the candidate will be immediately reverted back to the link for generation of acknowledgement receipt. Candidates are directed to print the payment proof (depicting the transaction ID) as well as the acknowledgement receipt for future correspondence, verification and admission process. The payment proof can be obtained from the website https://wbmcc.nic.in by clicking on the link of view transaction ID. Similarly the acknowledgement proof can be obtained from same website by clicking link to generate acknowledgement receipt during the payment schedule.

• It may so happen that due to internet server error during the payment process, the candidate fails to pay successfully and thus fails to generate transaction ID and or acknowledgement slip. The candidate is advised to be cautious and must check with his/her bank account before attempting to pay again since the payment once made for counseling process of AIAPGET 2021 is non refundable. The candidates who have not paid for counseling process successfully are not able to participate in counseling process and seat allotment. However if a candidate fails to pay successfully in Round 1 counseling gets further chance before Round 2 or Mop up round counseling. Such candidate must however keep in mind that he/she is eligible for allotment of only such seats that are available during that particular round.

Step 3 (Registration followed by Choice filling and choice locking of the successfully paid candidates):-

• The successfully paid candidates have to click the link candidate login in the website https://wbmcc.nic.in within scheduled time and then have to click the link New User Registration and fill up the necessary credentials for registration. The transaction ID has to be filled here. The acknowledgement number printed on the acknowledgement slip has to be filled here as well. These unique ID shall not to be shared. After this the website would direct to provide security question, security answer and unique password for completion of registration step. The password shall be 8-13 character with at least one upper case letter of English alphabet, at least one lower case letter of English alphaber, at least one Arabic numeric and at least one Arabic numerical and at least one special character of the key board of the computer.The password shall not be shared by the candidate. The counseling committee or NIC shall not be responsible if the candidate fails to protect the password generated at this stage.

• After registration is done the candidate has to login again in the candidate login link of the website https://wbmcc.nic.in now the candidate has to click registered user login link and to put the roll number and the newly created password here to login successfully. After such step the candidate shall be directed to the choice filling page where the candidate can see the available choices and fill the choices one by one in the choice basket.

• The following options are provided in the choice filling link like choice up and down, single deletion, choice interchange, choice move, multiple deletions etc. The candidate can fill all the viewed choices as per eligibility however the choices shall be processed only as per seat matrix for that round and seat conversion policy of the particular round. The candidates are requested to arrange choice as per willingness as choice processing shall be done by the computer system from the first choice downwards at his/her inter se merit rank.

• The candidates must save the choices as choices not saved shall not be available for consideration of allotment. After the choice arrangement is done the final step is to lock the choices after providing the password. Once the choices are locked they cannot be changed and no application shall be entertained in this regard Only the locked choices shall be processed for allotment. If the candidate fails to lock the choices but is able to save them then the choices provided and saved shall be auto locked after the choice locking period is over by the system.

Step 4 (Publication of applicant list and publication of processed Result of allotment based on eligibility of candidates):-

• The applicant candidate list as per combined merit rank based on AIAPGET 2021 shall be published for Round 1 and Round 2 and Mop Up by the system after the choice locking period is over. The allotment shall be based on inter se merit of the candidates as per provided caste, PwD status and shall be purely provisional. The allotted candidate has to pass the physical document verification process at the allotted college within stipulated time by providing the original documents and requisite college fee for securing the admission. The candidate who fail in the document verification process due to lack of essential documents and thereby become non eligible for further rounds shall be out of the counseling process. The candidate who does not appear for document verification (physical reporting) at the allotted college with requisite original documents and college fee within stipulated time shall be termed as non reported candidate.

The stray round (online) shall provide the eligible qualified already registered candidate list who are till then remains not admitted. The choices provided by such candidates if any during the mop up round shall be upgraded in the stray round for consideration of seat allotment by the counseling software. The allotted candidates need to physically report to the concerned colleges within stipulated time with original credentials and college fee for admission as stated above.

Step 5 (Physical original document verification of the allotted candidates at the allotted college within stipulated time):-

• The verification of allotted candidates shall be done at the allotted college within the stipulated time and date. No verification beyond the scheduled dates will be entertained for that particular round. The candidates who are rejected during verification due to want of appropriate essential documents will forfeit their candidature for subsequent consideration for counselling. Time based system will not permit in conceding request of such candidate any further.

The List of the original documents (as applicable) along with self attested photocopies (one copy per document) to be produced by the candidate at the time of physical verification:

The requisite authority if satisfied with the documents produced by the candidates will approve the eligibility of the candidate for admission. If the candidate is not able to produce requisite documents in support of their minimum eligibility , their candidature is liable to be cancelled. The eligible applicants will find their names in provisional list for WB Ayush PG 2021 counseling to be published by WBMCC in the website http://wbmcc.nic.in in due course.

The Schedule of Counseling Round 1 is as follows:-

To view the official Notice , Click here :