The sale of application forms for medical and dental colleges under the single-window system for the academic year 2016-17 will commence on May 9, Director of Medical Education R. Vimala announced on Tuesday.
Students can download the application from the website tnhealth.org, and submit them by May 27. Each application costs Rs. 500. There will, however, be no online registration, Dr. Vimala said. The last date for issue/download of applications is May 26. The merit list is expected to be released on June 15 and the first phase of counselling will be held in July. Classes will commence on August 1. The sanctioned number of seats is 3,765 and includes the 20 government, eight self-financing and one ESIC Medical College. These include 2,655 seats in government colleges and 1,010 seats in self-financing institutions. While the State government will set aside 398 seats to the All India Quota (AIQ), the self-financing colleges will get 415 seats under management quota. The self-financing institutions will surrender 595 seats to the State government’s pool. The Employees State Insurance Corporation-run medical college will surrender 65 of its 100 seats to the government.
As of now, the State has only one dental college with a sanctioned intake of 100 students.
Of this, 15 seats will be allocated to the AIQ and 85 seats to the State quota. The 17 self-financing dental colleges have a combined sanctioned strength of 1,610 seats. The colleges will together surrender 970 seats to State quota and 640 seats will be filled under management quota.
No online registration, says Director
of Medical Education
