New Policy of Uttar Pradesh Medical Faculty

• 27 Feb 2023

Why In News?

On February 26, 2023, Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary of Medical Education Alok Kumar said that admission to auxiliary nurse and midwifery (ANM), general nursing and midwifery (GNM) and paramedical courses in the state will now be done with state-level merit. For this, the Uttar Pradesh State Medical Faculty is making a new policy.

Key points

• Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary, Medical Education, Uttar Pradesh, said that advice has been sought from the college managers and principals on the new policy of the Uttar Pradesh State Medical Faculty.
• It is noteworthy that there are 19,220 seats of ANM and of GNM 18,323 seats in the state. There are more than 20,000 seats in various degree and diploma courses of paramedical. Till now, the college management used to enrol in them, but now the colleges will not be able to take admission on their own.
• In fact, from the year 2023-24, a centralized system is being made, under which students will have to apply course-wise, fill the name of the college in the seniority order.
• In the applications coming to the Uttar Pradesh State Medical Faculty, state-level merit will be made according to the minimum qualification and the marks obtained in the intermediate, then colleges will be allotted through counselling.
• According to Faculty Secretary Prof. Alok Kumar, till now it was alleged that due to collusion of colleges, students with less merit get admission in desired course and college. But this new system will increase transparency and justice will be done to meritorious students.