The Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) on Monday notified 400 additional MBBS seats in the new medical colleges of J&K as “available” for admission starting this academic year, an addition that takes MBBS seat pool in state from 500 to 900.
The additional seats have come as a major boost to medicaleducation sector in the state, commissioner secretary health and medicaleducation Atal Dulloo said.
He said the Medical Council of India had issued a letter ofpermission to the four new medical colleges of J&K on Sunday and that stategovernment had subsequently communicated the development to the BOPEE.
“It is the largest addition of MBBS seats to J&K inhistory,” he said.
The BOPEE notice said the seats, 100 each, will be availableat GMC Anantnag, GMC Baramulla, GMC Kathua and GMC Rajouri.
Chairman BOPEE Mohammad Ashraf Bukhari said the intakecapacity this session would be double as compared to the last year—400 MBBSseats in three government medical colleges of the state, and 100 more in theprivate medical college, ASCOMS Jammu.
This year, in total, MBBS aspirants will have 900 seatsavailable to them, he said.
Last week, Greater Kashmir had reported about MCI’sagreement to allow MBBS at four of the five new medical colleges of J&Ksubject to an undertaking that the administration of these colleges had tosubmit.
The notice further said that following the NEET UG result,the candidates are required to register themselves with the board throughonline mode and also upload their documents on the website.
“The seat matrix will be uploaded on the BOPEE website indue course of time, along with the information brochure,” BOPEE said.