The Union Government has reserved four MBBS seats for the academic year 2024-25 in various medical colleges and institutes for the spouse and children of civilian victims of terrorism, seeking nomination before September 17.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) declared the decision taken by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to the chief secretaries of all states and the Union Territories asking for the publicity of the move.
The MHA’s written communication, issued on August 23, urges that the state governments and the UT administrators should give wide publicity while inviting applications from eligible candidates for allocation of MBBS seats for civilian victims of terrorism.
Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation (CTCR) division of the MHA issued the letter referring to the health ministry’s August 13 decision, conveying that during the academic year 2024-25, four MBBS seats from the Central pool has been earmarked in the medical colleges and institutes for nomination of candidates.
Of the four MBBS seats, one each will be allocated to Bihar’s Gaya-based AN Magadh Medical College and Maharashtra’s Mumbai-based Grant Medical College, while two seats will be allocated to Chhhattisgarh’s Raipur-based Pt. JNM Medical College.
These four MBBS seats will be allocated to the spouse and children of the victims of terrorism from the Central pool.
The candidate must either be a spouse or children of the deceased. According to the eligibility criteria, the candidate must have completed 17 years of age at the time of admission of his/her admission to the first year of the Undergraduate Medical Course and is an Indian National.
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