Jammu and Kashmir’s first Government Unani Medical College will begin functioning from the academic session 2020-21 as Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India (GoI) today issued Letter of Permission (LoP) in favor of the college, with 60 seats in UG (BUMS) course.
The approval was granted to the Unani Medical College on the suggestions of the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) that followed an inspection of the Institution between December 1, 2020, and December 2, 2020, to review the available facilities of education and practical training for providing Undergraduate (UG) course and to check the compliance of shortcoming noticed previously.
After the inspection, the CCIM team found the varsity has fulfilled the notified and approved criterion for issuing Letter of Permission for conducting UG course from the academic session 2020-21, it suggested the Government of India to approve LoP to Government Unani Medical College and Hospital, Shalteng (Srinagar) to commence the first batch of 60 UG seats from the academic session 2020-21.
Although, while issuing LoP to the College, the Government of India also made it clear that at least 15% of Undergraduate seats of the intake capacity of 60 seats shall be treated as all India quota and the counseling for these seats shall be held by the Central Government and counseling for remaining 85% seats shall be held by counseling bodies of J&K UT.
A communiqué by the Ministry of AYUSH (GoI) to Health and Medical Education (H&ME) Department, J&K states, “However, if any seat is not filled up in the Central counseling, the same shall be transferred to counseling authority of J&K to admit students as per their rules/ reservation/policies/ norms.”
Since the proposal was first put forward in 2008, it is a great achievement. The sources revealed that now the students from J&K need not go outside the state or take admission into private colleges to study the Unani System of Medicine course. On the other hand, they regretted that it took the Government of J&K more than a decade to begin Government Unani Medical College, Shalteng.
Apart from this, the commencement of the first batch in Unani College took place because of constant efforts under the command of Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education Atal Dulloo. Director ISM Dr. Mohan Singh concluded all the formalities for the upcoming batch.
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