The Hindu : `High Court directive binding on PG dental admission too'

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Feb 22, 2004

Kerala

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

`High Court directive binding on PG dental admission too'

By J. Ajeth Kumar

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 21. The directive of the Kerala High Court, pertaining to the admissions to the medical post-graduate degree and diploma courses will be binding on the admissions to the post-graduate dental courses as well, according to sources in the office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE).

The High Court had directed that even service candidates would have to qualify the entrance examination for admission to the medical post-graduate degree and diploma courses.

Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes would have to secure at least 40 per cent marks and the others, a minimum of 50 per cent marks in the common entrance test, to be considered for admission to the post-graduate courses in medicine. In the category of service candidates were included doctors serving in government hospitals and members of the teaching faculty in the government medical colleges in the State.

For admission to the post-graduate dental course (MDS) too, the same yardstick would be applied.

Dental surgeons serving in government hospitals for a minimum period of two years or those teaching in the government dental colleges were eligible to apply under the service quota for admission to the MDS course.

Even though their seniority in service would be the final consideration, they would be required to secure the minimum percentage of marks fixed by the Dental Council of India (DCI), as done by the Medical Council of India (MCI) in the case of the aspirants for the medical PG courses.

The MDS course was being offered in the dental colleges in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.

Out of the total 28 seats available in these two colleges, 11 have been set apart for service candidates, as per the prospectus issued last year.

The MCI has directed that admission to the post-graduate medical courses be completed by May 31, 2004.

Accordingly, the last date for submitting applications for the entrance test to be conducted by the CEE had been fixed as March 3 and the test was to take place on March 27.

The Director of Medical Education, Kerala, was yet to issue the notification with regard to the admission to the post-graduate dental course, since the DCI had still not finalised the admission schedule.

However, it would be for the CEE to conduct the entrance test in accordance with the prospectus to be issued by the DME.

It was not clear whether the May 31 deadline, as applicable to the medical PG admissions, would hold good for the dental PG admissions as well.

Sources in the CEE pointed out that it would be for the first time service candidates were made to qualify an entrance test for being considered for admission to the post-graduate medical courses.

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