PANAJI
The Directorate of Technical Education will finally commence the process of admissions to the degree programmes at the Goa Medical College and Goa Dental College on August 26 after much delay due to the controversy surrounding the NEET exam this year.
The merit list based on NEET scores of some 3,500 students was earlier this week finalised and released by the DTE and the first round of counselling for admission to the 153 MBBS seats and 41 BDS seats at the GMC and GDC respectively will commence on Monday.
For other courses where NEET scores will be counted for admissions -- Pharmacy and Nursing -- the admission counselling process will be held later.
On Monday, the counseling round for students seeking admissions to MBBS and BDS courses will commence at 9.30 am, according to a DTE official who added that students have been divided into batches based on their category and courses opted.
On day one (Monday) itself the process for the medical and dental courses is expected to be complete with letters issued to them for these 153 MBBS and 41 BDS seats.
These successful students will then have to report to the GMC or GDC as the case may be in the first week of September when the entire admission formality will have to be completed in the offices of the respective colleges.
