MULTAN:
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) cancelled the admissions by 15 private medical colleges in violation of PMDC rules.
Private medical and dental institutions are allowed to start admissions only after determination of merit by the respective provincial testing/admission authorities.
They cannot conduct their own entry tests. However, they are allowed to give an aptitude test and interview.
According to the PMDC, the 15 medical colleges had violated the admission rules. The colleges are Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Azra Naheed Medical College, Lahore, Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Rashid Latif Medical College, Lahore, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Yusra Medical and Dental College, Islamabad, Margalla College of Dentistry, Rawalpindi, CMH Lahore Medical College, Lahore, Institute of Dentistry, Lahore Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi, Foundation University Medical College, Rawalpindi, Shaikh Zayed Medical College, Lahore, and Central Park Medical College, Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 10th, 2012.
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plz pmdc k rule ko strickiy follow karna ho ga
I assure you that none of these who have already selected will be deprived from admission if the admission is reprocessed because all these are high merit students. @Rabia K:
I do agree that private colleges should have waited for the Punjab merit list, that's why PMDC shouldn't have allowed this to happen in the first place! Now it's unfair for all the students who have put their heart and soul into getting admissions and are going to have their admissions cancelled when they are not the ones at fault here. In my opinion the colleges should be fined but the students shouldn't have to go through the ordeal to start the admission process all over again.
@Muhammad Asif: Why are you punishing students for this? They have worked very hard. I have studied 14 hours a day and had to pay a lot of money and now I hear my admission is cancelled? Make the medical colleges pay, not us.
First we students go through 6 months of HELL to get admission and now we hear they are cancelled? Don't punish the students who have done nothing wrong. Fine the medical colleges and allow full refunds for students, don't cancel admissions of students who have worked very hard to get in these colleges.
Fee enhanced by PMDC of Rs.500000/- during the instant year is unjustified which is to be withdrawn. There are certain violations of PMDC rules and illegalities in CMH Lahore medical and dental college lahore such as :-
i) non-display of final merit list, ii) conduct of its own entry test in the presence of provincial entry test, iii) processing of admission process before 31 october and iv) non-publishing of advertisement as directed by PMDC on 6.11.2012 v) Receiving of donations from students who are not on merit.
Strict action is to be taken against CMH medical college with the directions to:-
i) advertise afresh calling fresh applications from the students who have not applied earlier ii) cancel his own entry test as directed by PMDC Islamabad. iii) display final merit list on net on the basis of provincial entry test as directed by PMDC excluding the marks of its own illegal entry test
Thanks and regards
Muhammad Asif