Panaji: Postgraduate programmes are being introduced in four branches for the first time at the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) at Dhargalim, Pernem, from the academic year 2024-25. Twenty PG seats are on offer at the institute from now, of which 50% or 10 have been reserved for Goan students.
The seats are being filled through the directorate of technical education (DTE) which has said that all the state seats have already found takers in the first round itself. As many as 50% of the 100 undergraduate seats at the AIIA are also reserved for Goan students.
“The 20 PG seats are only the beginning. The institute is set to expand the master’s programmes further. The permission had come for the seats only in mid-Nov. The admission process is already over. As it is a govt institute, the fees are nominal, a fraction of the fees charged at private colleges and all the facilities are available, so the seats found takers immediately,” said a state govt official.
A private ayurveda institute based in Shiroda already has six PG seats on offer for two to three years now, but the govt-funded institute’s seats have found favour with students due to the subsidised fees and facilities on offer.
For the first time from 2024-25, the DTE is carrying out admissions to the 144 PG seats available at the Goa Medical College. These seats are available in 22 branches and 72 of the seats are available to students under state quota.
Recently the National Medical Commission directed the state to appoint an authority to carry out PG admissions and that the admissions cannot be carried out by the institute. Goa govt then designated the DTE as the authority. After the order came in Oct, the DTE conducted two admission rounds.
As per the National Medical Commission prescribed schedule, the third admission round to PG medical seats will be held in the first week of Feb.
Until 2023-24, the admissions were being carried out to the PG programme seats by the Goa Medical College itself.
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