{"id":43715,"date":"2017-03-03T01:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43715"},"modified":"2017-03-03T01:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:18:18","slug":"punjab-withdraws-mgmt-nri-quota-ayush-colleges-hindustan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43715","title":{"rendered":"Punjab withdraws mgmt, NRI quota from AYUSH colleges &#124; Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Union government\u2019s directions, Punjab has withdrawn management and NRI quota for undergraduate courses in private Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) colleges.<br \/>\nBesides, all 800 seats, both in private and government colleges, will be filled through the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET). Earlier, admissions were held through statewide entrance test conducted by Hoshiarpur-based Guru Ravidas Ayurved University.<br \/>\nDirector, research and medical education, Dr Sujata Sharma said these changes have been made after Centre\u2019s decision to bring AYUSH system of medicine under NEET, besides making education more affordable.<br \/>\n\u201cThe new fee structure is being worked out after withdrawal of management and NRI quota seats that had higher fee than government seats,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<b>TO IMPACT PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>Punjab has just one government-run ayurvedic college and 15 are private where 50% quota fixed for management seats was allotted to students at Rs 1.20 lakh per annum and Rs 80,000 in case of a government quota seat. Besides, on 15% NRI quota seats, a student was charged Rs 2.4 lakh per year.<br \/>\nPunjab also has four private homeopathic colleges and a unani college.<br \/>\nPrincipal of Ludhiana-based Guru Nanak Ayurvedic Medical College and Research Institute Dr YN Sharma said the decision would hit them financially since the management and NRI quota seats were their only source to collect funds for better facilities. \u201cThe state should take a call on deciding our fee structure since it will directly affect our working and facilities to students,\u201d he said<br \/>\nOther colleges argue that the state government had not revised the fee for AYUSH courses for the last five years whereas the fee for MBBS and MD courses was revised twice during that period.<br \/>\nWhen contacted, registrar of Guru Ravidas Ayurved University Jatinder Garg said: \u201cThe state government has sought our opinion on the new fee structure. We will respond by Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Union government\u2019s directions, Punjab has withdrawn management and NRI quota for undergraduate courses in private Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) colleges. Besides, all 800 seats, both in private and government colleges, will be filled through the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET). Earlier, admissions were held through statewide entrance test conducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}