Punjab NEET UG Counselling 2020

The counselling for medical seats in Punjab is conducted by the Baba Faridkot University of Health Sciences. This counselling is held for the 85% seats of government medical colleges and 100% seats of private medical colleges. The remaining 15% seats of Government colleges come under the All India Quota. The counselling for these 15% seats is conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee.

There are 3 government medical colleges and 5 private medical colleges in Punjab state. Students need to compete for the 600 government medical seats and 625 private medical seats. For these seats students need to score qualifying marks in NEET UG exam i.e. minimum of 50% for general category students and 40% for reserved category students.

The Punjab domicile students can apply for both the government and private colleges’ seats. Those students who are non-domicile from Punjab state can apply for the management quota seats in private medical colleges.

To take admission in these college students need to follow rounds. There are four rounds, Round 1, Round 2, Mop-up round, and Stray round.

The competition for the government seats in All India Quota was very high in both the rounds for year 2019. The competition can be seen by the rank of the general category student who got the last seat. It was 5667th ranked student who got the last seat in AIQ seats.

Students can get Private seats at Government fees of 220000, Management seat at 660000 and seat offered in Adesh Institute of Medical Science at 1190000 Per Annum.

Government Medical College, Amritsar is the top most choice of the students. Many students have put it in the top position while filling the choices. On the other hand, Dayanand Medical college, Ludhiana is the top priority among all the Private medical colleges.

Punjab offers the very low fee structure for Private Management seats among all the Private Medical colleges in India after Kerala.

The students who are seeking for the private seats under management quota are advised to target Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Science, Amritsar. It has lower cut off compared to other medical colleges in Punjab.

Due to the Covid-19 situation the mentioned timetable and schedule can be changed as per further notice. Consider this as the temporary schedule.

• Students should clear the qualifying examination, HSC examination with 50% marks for general category and 40% marks for reserved category. The subjects which are compulsory are English, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
• Candidates which have appeared only can also apply.
• The age of candidate must be at least 17 years and maximum of 25 years old at the time of application or as on 31st December in the year of admission.
• NEET qualifying score is compulsory for candidates to apply.
• Candidates with punjab domicile can apply for the State Government, Private and Management seats. Those who are non-domicile of Punjab can only apply for management seats in Private medical colleges.

• The first step for the counselling is to register with BFUHS on bfuhs.ac.in.
• The list of eligible candidates will be displayed.
• The eligible candidates can go for the choice filling after logging into their accounts.
• The seat allocation would be done after the verification and tallying the rank of the candidate, cut off of the institute and institute ranks.
• Candidates are advised to accept the seat allotted then and verify their documents and report to the respective college.
• If they are not willing to accept the seat allotted to them then they can opt for the upgradation in Round 2.
• The rounds of the seat allotment will be held as per the time table and the eligible students can go for the participation in the further counselling rounds.
• If any student wants to take their names back then it is allowed free in only for round 1.

• Domicile certificate
• NEET admit card 2020
• NEET result 2020
• Marksheet of class 12th
• Income certificate
• Class 10 passing certificate
• Aadhaar card
• Pass certificate from Class 6 to 12
• Minority certificate, if applicable
• Permanent caste certificate, if required
• Transfer certificate
• Allotment letter
• Reserved candidate must produce respective documents asked by the authority