Gujarat: Revised choice filling round for admissions in medical, dental courses begins

The Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC, ACPPGMEC) started the revised choice filling round from Wednesday, a day after reversing its earlier decision to sharply raise fees for undergraduate medical courses across 13 medical colleges operated by the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS). The committee had to reconduct the admission process and is expected to release an updated schedule shortly.

The committee statement said that the choice filling round that started from Wednesday will conclude on August 12.
The committee statement said that choice filling will be done for a total of 8,113 seats including 6,858 MBBS seats in 39 colleges, 1,255 BDS seats in 13 colleges.

In July, the state government had announced revised fee structure for government quota, management quota, and NRI quota seats. The annual fee for government quota seats was increased from Rs 3.30 lakh per year to Rs 5.50 lakh, marking a 66.66% increase. The management quota fee surged from Rs 9 lakh per annum to Rs 17 lakh, signifying an 88.88% rise. For NRI quota students, the annual fee was raised from $22,000 to $25,000, representing a 13.63% increase.
However, on Tuesday, the committee announced the withdrawal of the fee hike and the reinstatement of the previous fee structure. This sudden change has led to the cancellation of admissions for approximately 6,000 students who had been allotted seats in the initial round of admissions.
The 13 medical colleges under GMERS offer a total of 2,100 medical seats in the state. Following regulations, 75% of the seats are reserved for the state quota, 10% for the management quota, and the remaining 15% for the NRI quota. Across all GMERS medical colleges, there are 1,500 state quota seats, 210 management quota seats, and 315 NRI quota seats. Any unoccupied NRI quota seats are converted into management quota seats.