Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari and Minister of State for Education Priya Sethi at a high level meeting

JAMMU: The Government has decided to start the admissions for new Nursing Colleges, Schools of Architecture and Institute of Mathematical Sciences from this academic session.

The decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting convened by Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari here today. Minister of State for Education Priya Sethi was also present in the meeting.

The meeting discussed wide range of issues concerning the academic activities in existing institutions  of higher education and process of admissions in the newly established institutes, registration of   candidates for Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) for J&K, including provision for lateral entry of the candidates for degree courses who have obtained Engineering diplomas.

The meeting also held detailed review of pace of progress on construction of Government Degree College buildings, campuses for new institutes and renovation, upgrading of Infrastructure in existing GDCs under RUSA and other related matters.

Pertinently, Higher Education Department has established two new Nursing Colleges one each in   Kashmir and Jammu, which will function  from Women’s College MA Road  Srinagar and Government College for Women Gandhi Nagar Jammu. Similarly, Schools of Architecture will function from GDC Bemina, Srinagar and MAM College Jammu, while the Institute of Mathematical Sciences has been sanctioned for Srinagar, which would offer 5 year degree course in Mathematical Sciences.    

Reviewing the process for registration under PMSSS for J&K, Altaf Bukhari asked the school, college and AICTE representatives to go for a massive campaign to make the students aware about the   scheme. He also called for close check on the touts and agents who may mislead the students on the plea of providing them admissions. He said from the past one year the government has done away with the process of admissions through NGOs after repeated complaints were received that many students were fleeced by the agents. The Minister asked the AICTE to publish advertisements in the print media clearly mentioning that no student should go to any NGO for admission.

It was informed that around 2000 candidates have so far been registered for academic session 2017-18, while 5000 more are in process of submitting their documents.  The registration is done online through AICTE portal.

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