State reserves 10% seats in PG courses for in-service doctors

 State reserves 10% seats in PG courses for in-service doctors

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

12.01.2022

Ahmedabad: A 10% reservation in postgraduate medical courses has been reserved for in-service doctors working at district and taluka health centres. The state health department on Tuesday notified the rules for implementing this reservation.

The rules list 10 branches in which reservations will be implemented — paediatrics, TB and chest, obstetrics and gynaecology, preventive and social medicine, orthopaedics, general surgery and medicine. Anaesthetics, radiology and pathology are not on the list. The eligibility conditions are that the in-service doctors have to be Class 2 officers, should have been appointed by the Gujarat Public Service Commission, and have completed three years of service. The age limit to avail of this reservation has been set at 45 years.

If an in-service doctor leaves the course midway, according to the government's bond policy, they will have to pay 25% of their Rs 40 lakh bond, i. e. Rs10 lakh.

The candidate doctors must have cleared NEET-PG. This reservation will be implemented in the 2022-23 admission procedure.

Thus with SC, ST and OBC quotas accounting for 49%, 10% EWS quota, 5% for persons with disabilities and 10% reservation for in-service doctors, a total of 74% of seats will be reserved.