Counseling begins for PMSSS; 2000 seatsavailable in Engineering Colleges
July 26: The counseling of students for admission in various
colleges outside the State under the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship
Scheme (PMSSS) began at designated centres in Srinagar and Jammu today. In
Kashmir, the counseling is being held at Amar Singh College, Srinagar while in
Jammu, the counseling is being held at Government College for Women, Gandhi
Nagar. As per the merit, Palak Gupta was the first student who got admission
under PMSSS in the prestigious Lady Shriram College, New Delhi. Mohammad Suhaib
of district Pulwama got admission in BA (Honors) at the famous St Stephens
College, New Delhi. Anmol Sharma of Jammu secured admission in Hindu College,
Harpreet Kour in Delhi College of Engineering and Tahil Kundal in Delhi College
of Engineering. Similarly, a girl from district Baramulla secured admission in
Delhi College of Engineering while another student from the same district got
admission in Hans Raj College of Delhi University in biosciences. Minister for
Education, Naeem Akhtar visited the counseling centre at Amar Singh College to
personally review the arrangements. Talking to media, the Minister said that
6600 students have registered for PMSSS across the State and their counseling
will continue till August 3, 2016 with 400 students being counseled each day.
He said, besides general courses, 2000 seats are available this year to the
J&K students under PMSSS in the NBA accredited Engineering Colleges across
the country while 369 seats are available in the Nursing Colleges. Giving the
breakup of seats available under PMSSS, the Minister said 10 supernumerary
seats are available in each AICTE approved Engineering College with a limit of
two seats per branch, two supernumerary seats are available in general stream
in UGC approved colleges and three supernumerary seats are available in Nursing
Institutions. He said for the current financial year Rs 75 crore worth
scholarships are available to J&K students under PMSSS. The Minister said
while the tuition fee of the students admitted under PMSSS would be directly
transferred by AICTE to the concerned college, the maintenance charges,
including hostel fee, books and stationary and other incidentals would be
transferred into the account of the concerned student under Direct Benefit
Transfer (DBT). The Minister said while upto Rs 30000 per annum would be
available as scholarship under PMSSS for general courses, upto Rs 1.25 lakh per
annum would be available for engineering courses and upto Rs 3 lakh per annum
for medical/dental courses. “Besides, every student would be entitled upto Rs 1
lakh per annum as maintenance charges,” he said and added that the students
taking admission, by virtue of their own merit, in institutions like IITs, NITs
and Central Universities outside J&K are also eligible for scholarship
under PMSSS. He said in view of the prevailing law and order situation, the
Government has made adequate boarding and lodging arrangements for the students
and their guardians at the hostels in Amar Singh College, SPCollege and Women’s
College, M ARoad Srinagar. He said any student, who wants to avail the boarding
and lodging facility can approach the nodal officer at Amar Singh College, Srinagar
for the same. The Minister said that if a student misses the counseling on the
assigned date, due to some unavoidable reason, he/she can appear on the next
date.
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