DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH

PRESS RELEASE
 

Subject: Admissions in GNM and ANM Courses in the State of Punjab.

1. The Department of Medical Education & Research vide its Notification dated 5/7/2004 has allowed admissions in 60 institutions for General Nursing Midwifery(GNM) Course and 26 institutions for Auxiliary Nursing Midwife(ANM) Course. The salient points of this Notification are:

(a) The seats in existing institutions which have not constructed their own building and are operating from rented buildings have been reduced by 5/10/15 depending upon delay in construction of own building by 1/2/3 or more years.

(b) No existing institutions shall be allowed to make admissions in 2005-2006 unless it has its own building. Similarly no fresh institute would be allowed to come up in 2004-2005 unless it has its own building.

(c ) The following institutions have been de-recognised for the year 2004-2005 for GNM Course:
(1) Anand School of Nursing, Amritsar
(2) Guru Gobind Singh Training Institute, Amritsar
(3) Guru Nanak Nursing Training Institute, Jalandhar

For ANM Course:
(1) Dr.Sham Lal Thapar Nursing School, Moga

(2) Baba Farid Institute, Kot Kapura.

(d) The annual fee for GNM Course would be Rs.35,000/- and fee for the entire 1 ½ year ANM Course would be Rs.25,000/-.

(e) The Room rent would be Rs.1000/- per month and mess charges would be as per actual expenditure.

(f) The students and parents are requested to go through the list of recognised/approved institutes as given in the Notification before seeking admissions.

(Satish Chandra) IAS,
Secretary, Medical Education & Research

7/7/2004