Final round of counselling at Baba Farid University on Jan 13

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, January 7

After three rounds of online counselling during the last month for admission to 1,375 MBBS seats in nine medical colleges in the state on the basis of NEET-2020 score, the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) today announced to fill the remaining 20 vacant MBBS seats through walk-in counselling (physical counselling) under the stray vacancy round on January 13.

There are four rounds of NEET counselling — round 1, round 2, mop up round and stray vacancy round. Out of the four rounds, three rounds were conducted online by the BFUHS.

The final stray vacancy round will start on January 13 at the Guru Gobind Singh Medical College here and the students have to join as per the allotted seats in the respective colleges by January 15 evening, the last date for admission to medical and dental colleges.

On December 29, the BFUHS had announced to extend the last date for admission to MBBS course (for the current academic session) from December 31 to January 15. This extension in the admission date was made as per the directions of the National Medical Commission (NMC).

Though the last date of admission to MBBS and superspecialty medical courses for the academic session 2020-21 was August 31, 2020, the entrance exams for these courses were conducted in October, 2020 and the counselling was extended till January 15, 2021, due to the Covid pandemic.