MBBS, BDS Admission in Punjab: GMC Mohali not offering EWS quota seats

Faridkot: Punjab-based Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) has not reserved any seats at the Government Medical College at Mohali for the students belonging to economically weaker section (EWS).

Even though the University has reserved 50 out of total 600 MBBS seats in three government medical colleges at Amritsar, Patiala and Fairdkot, GMC Mohali remains an exception.

The reason that the University took such a decision is the fact that the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) and the National Medical Commission (NMC) has not inspected the college yet. Therefore, the EWS quota rule has not been made applicable for this institute.

Meanwhile, the a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas that challenged the constitutional validity of the EWS quota reservation.

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As per the latest media report by Tribune India, BFUHS has confirmed that the State has altogether 1,500 MBBS courses in 10 medical colleges including four government medical institutes. In case of the GMCs at Mohali, Amritsar, Patiala and Faridkot the intake capacity of MBBS students is 100, 250, 225 and 125 MBBS seats respectively. Apart from this, the two private minority institutes- CMC Ludhiana and SGRD Amritsar offer 100 and 150 seats respectively. Besides, the other four private medical colleges in Punjab have a total intake capacity of 550 MBBS seats. Among these, 275 seats are government quota seats.