New Delhi, April 3: In a good news for medical students, the Union Health Ministry has extended the deadline for submitting applications for post graduate medical courses for next academic session by over a month.
The ministry extended the date to May 15 from April 7 for students to submit duly filled forms for post graduate medical courses for the academic session 2020-21. The proposal to extend the deadline was put forwarded by the the Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI)
The move will allow medical colleges to add more seats as per revised norms
The move was taken in a bid to allow medical institutes to apply for adding more seats as per the revised guidelines under which the ICU beds will be included in the total bed strength of the medical colleges which in turn would create more seats in post graduate courses. The new regulations also made it mandatory for each post graduate teacher to have more number of students.
Govt, municipal schools directed to register eligible students for RPVV entrance test
In another development in the education sector, the government and municipal schools in the national capital have been directed by the Directorate of Education (DoE) to register eligible students of their schools for the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas (RPVV) entrance test.
An initiative of the Delhi government, the RPVV schools were set up in 1997 with an aim to provide good education to meritorious students from the marginalised sections of the society. At present, there are 22 RPVVs in the national capital.
A circular issued by the DoE asked all heads of state-run, government-aided, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) and Delhi Cantonment Board Schools (DCBS) schools to register all eligible students of their schools for the RPVV entrance test. A student can choose any of the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalayas for admission in Class VI, it said.
The eligibility criteria for sitting in the entrance test is that a student should have studied for at least two consecutive academic years — 2017-18 and 2018-19 in a particular school and should have passed Class 5 with minimum 60 per cent marks.
