PMET in two shifts, all centres in state

Balwant Garg

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, June 6

The Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, today decided to withdraw all three exam centres for the PMET in Haryana in view of the renewed Jat agitation.

Over 2,000 students were to appear for the test in three towns of Haryana. The decision was taken keeping in view the security of all students and to ally all apprehensions of disturbance in the neighbouring state, the university authorities said.

However, to meet the inadequacy of computers in Punjab for the online PMET, the medical university has now decided to conduct the test in two shifts, 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm. Around 8,000 medical aspirants will appear in the test in each shift at exam centres established across Punjab, said Dr Raj Bahadur, vice-chancellor, BFUHS. The PMET is scheduled for June 11.

All students were required to check exam centres details at the university website, said the VC. “We want all second shift students to reach their exam centers by 12.30 pm so that they can enter the exam room one hour before the start of the test, he said.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the IT company which was given contract by the university to conduct the PMET online, was facing problem in arranging about 16,000 computers in the state for taking the test in one go.

It was thus decided to set up some centres in towns of Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh which are situated close to Punjab areas so that the students of the border areas could take exam at these centers.

Earlier, the PMET was scheduled to be held in one shift from 11 am to 2 pm on June 11. It is of the first time that the BFUHS is conducting the PMET online. Earlier, May 15 was fixed as the date for this medical entrance test but due to legal wrangle over the common entrance test, NEET, the test date for PMET was changed to June 11.