BDS seats to go up to 100 at Pondy institute

BDS seats to go up to 100 at Pondy institute

Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com

Puducherry:10.08.2021

The Puducherry government has issued a no-objection certificate (NOC) to society-run Mahatma Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences (MGPGI) to increase the number of BDS seats from 40 to 100 from the 2022-23 academic year. The institute will now submit a proposal on increasing the number of teaching and non-teaching faculty members and equipping it with additional infrastructure to handle the increase intake.

Of the 40 BDS seats offered by the institute, 29 are reserved for the Union territory of Puducherry, six reserved under all India quota and five for non-resident Indians (NRI)/foreign students/ NRI-sponsored students. Centralized admission committee (Centac) will admit the students to BDS programme based on their score in the National eligibility cum entrance test (Neet).

The institute also proposes to increase one seat each in the six postgraduate speciality courses offered by it from the next academic year to introduce reservation for candidates under economically weaker sections (EWS).

The institute offers postgraduate courses in six specialities - oral pathology, oral medicine, oral surgery, prosthodontics, periodontics and conservative dentistry. It offers three seats in oral pathology and two each in the other five disciplines. Six seats are reserved for Puducherry while six under all India quota and one for NRI / foreign students / NRI-sponsored student.

The institute, which was established in 1990 in a temporary building with just two rooms, grew leap and bounds and was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi dental college and hospital in 1995 and was upgraded to present status as MGPGI in 2005.

The BDS and MDS programmes offered by the institute are recognized by the Dental Council of India, and Union health and family welfare ministry. The institute is permanently affiliated to the Pondicherry University (A central university). It is an autonomous body under the Puducherry government and is administered by a board of governors headed by the chief secretary to the government as the chairman.

Reserve medical super-specialty seats for TN

PMK founder-leader S Ramadoss urged the Tamil Nadu government to pass a law reserving all government-sponsored super-specialty seats in government medical colleges in the state for those from TN.

Ramadoss in a statement on Monday expressed shock over reports that doctors from other states, who joined super-specialty courses in government medical colleges, after being sponsored the TN government, had left for their respective states on completion of the course without coming forward to work in TN as per the contract.

He condemned the doctors from other states who study in government medical colleges and later refuse to serve the people of the state. He said the state was filling all 334 seats in 19 super specialty disciplines in government medical colleges till 2017. But the Centre started filling these seats from 2017 and scrapped 50% reservation for government doctors in admission to super specialty courses. TNN