Procedure for admissions to BPT course

CHANDIGARH, NOV 23

The Haryana Government has notified the procedure for admissions to Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) Course in College of Physiotherapy, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak for the academic session 2017-18.

             While stating this here today, a spokesman of Department of Medical Education and Research said that it has also been notified that all the seats would be under the Haryana State Merit Category.

             The spokesman said that Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak has been authorized to conduct counseling for admission to all categories of seats. He said that the number of seats and distribution would be final as notified by the Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak at the time of counseling.

            While referring to the process for admission, he said that admission under all categories would be made on the basis of the relative merit in the Common Entrance Test 2017 conducted by the University. He said that the eligibility criteria for Common Entrance Test is that the candidate should have passed 10 plus two with Science or any other equivalent examination recognized by the concerned State Government and Education Board, provided that the candidates passed the examination with minimum 50 per cent aggregate marks in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In respect of candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or any other categories notified by the government, the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken together in qualifying examination should be at least 40 per cent instead of minimum 50 per cent as stated above.

            He said that the relative merit, among such candidates desiring to seek admissions, would be drawn as per the merit of Common Entrance Test 2017 conducted by the University. The candidates would have to be present personally at the time of counseling. The counseling for the candidates under different category of seats would be conducted by the University and held at Rohtak in its campus as per the schedule to be notified by the University and also uploaded on the website www.uhsr.ac.in. The choice of the institutions would be exercised by the candidate at the counseling.
             The spokesman said that the Admission Committee would comprise of Registrar, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak as Chairperson and Dean, Academic Affairs, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Controller of Examinations, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Director-Principal of Government BPT College, representative of the Director, Medical Education and Research, Haryana and Law Officer, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak as members.

            He said that the University would prepare a merit list of the candidates appearing for the counseling on the basis of Common Entrance Test (CET) 2017. In case of a tie between two or more candidates having equal marks or merit, the inter-se-ranking of such candidates would be determined in the order of preference such as: a candidate with higher aggregate marks in Biology in the respective qualifying examination would be ranked higher. If there is a tie then a candidate having higher marks in aggregate of Physics, Chemistry and Biology would be ranked higher in merit. But still if there is tie then a candidate older in age would be ranked higher in merit.

             He said that the allotment of institution or college would be made strictly as per merit on the basis of marks obtained in CET 2017 and the choice of the institution or college by the candidate at the time of counseling would be taken as final. He said that in case there remains any vacancy under any category in any institution after the first round of admission or counseling, second round of counseling would be held. In case, the seats still remained vacant, such seats would be filled up by a procedure to be notified by the state government. However, no admission could be made after the last date prescribed for making admissions, he added.

            The spokesman said that the Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education and Research would be the final Appellate Authority in all admissions related disputes for all institutions and decision taken by him would be final. The University may charge the cost of the prospectus and fee structure for college would be as notified by the University in the prospectus. He said that the admitted students would pay the fee and other charges for all types of seats as per the fees and other charges fixed by the state government from time to time. The final distribution of seats under each category in each institute would be displayed at the time of counseling, he further added.

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