PMC Cancels Unfilled Enhanced Seats For Various Quotas

The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has cancelled the unfilled enhanced seats for various quotas and directed that no admissions from these seats will be registered with the commission

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Apr, 2021 ) :The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has cancelled the unfilled enhanced seats for various quotas and directed that no admissions from these seats will be registered with the commission.

According to PMC, these 594 enhanced seats across 33 public colleges were required to be filled and their admissions finalized by 22nd March 2021.

The decision was made taking notice of the repeated failures to comply with the directions to submit the list of admitted students on the 594 enhanced seats to accommodate them for various quotas, especially the Higher education Commission (HEC) Scholarship Program for FATA and Balochistan.

This deadline was further extended to March 22,2021, the notification of which had been dispatched to all provincial Chief Secretaries via a letter dated March 3,2021. Upon further non-compliance, all relevant authorities were notified on March 29,2021 that the final deadline for the submission of these lists would be April 5,2021.

Furthermore, the PMC has also been informed by the HEC that the allocation of seats for the HEC Scholarship Program has still not been processed by the provincial governments.

It added 15 seats were enhanced across three public colleges in AJK, 240 seats were enhanced in 15 public colleges in Punjab, 240 seats were enhanced in 11 public colleges in KP and eight seats were enhanced for NUMS in two colleges to accommodate various quota seats with priority given to the HEC Scholarship Program for FATA and Balochistan, with 91 seats being enhanced in two public colleges in Balochistan to accommodate the province's own requirements.

According to Section 18(3) of the PMC Act 2021, the provincial government has the exclusive authority to allocate all the seats available in its public colleges to any quota (funded or non-funded) or self-finance basis for purposes of admissions which are also carried out by the provincial government directly.

However, the PMC permitted enhancement of seats on the basis of meeting the enhancement criteria and with the understanding that these seats are to be filled with students from various quotas, especially FATA and Balochistan who fall under the HEC Scholarship Program.