B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College

The B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Ratnagiri is situated at Sawarda village which is about 16 kilometers from Chiplun and 290 kilometers from Mumbai on Mumbai-Goa highway. It was established in the year 2015 by S.V.J.C.Trust. The college is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and recognized by National Medical Commission (NMC), India. The Medical College has an annual intake of 100 MBBS seats and 41 seats in 9 disciplines of postgraduate studies.

The College is spread in a huge area of over 44.07 acres with an excellent infrastructure. There are spacious airconditioned 3 gallery-type Lecture halls to accommodate 120 students in college and 1 in the hospital with a seating capacity of 150, Demonstration halls, Common rooms for boys and girls, Examination hall to accommodate 250 students. The well-equipped, modernized, and latest Technology-driven equipment make the Laboratory unique. There are separate hostel facilities for Boys, Girls with good accommodation. There is a huge Auditorium and Seminar Hall, Indoor and Outdoor Games and Sports facilities with outdoor stadiums. The Central Library is spread over a huge area with over 8600+ books and a good collection of Indian and Foreign Journals with Digital Library facility. Apart from the central library every department maintains its own departmental library facility for their staff and PG students. These libraries, in addition to the textbooks in the concerned specialties, maintain specialized journals and magazines also.

The Attached Hospital

B.K.L. Walawalkar Hospital is the attached teaching hospital and is located at about 16 Km from Chiplun on the Mumbai-Goa highway in the village of Dervan. It is a 500 bedded multispecialty hospital with all modern medical services available under one roof. All the operation theatres are air-conditioned and include laparoscope, image intensifiers, different types of monitors & ventilators. These operation theatres handle a range of surgeries including simple procedures for treatment of hernia to complicated ones like that for knee replacement, spine surgeries, and Cancer surgeries. The hospital has super-specialty services in identified areas which includes Urology, Nephrology, Oncology and Radiation unit. Well-equipped pathology includes histopathology, haematology, microbiology, Blood bank and component laboratory is also available. BKL Walawalkar Hospital has established itself as a State of Art Cancer Centre in collaboration with Tata Memorial centre providing all Oncology Services Under One Single Roof for the ultimate benefit of Humanity. Students from various countries like Spain, U.S.A. and Germany come here every year for doing the clinical clerkship. The advantages of doing Internship here are many eg. a variety of ailments can be treated, differences in the rural & urban health awareness & realities can be observed first-hand.

CONTACT AND OTHER DETAILS:

Procedure for Selection and Admission to Medical Postgraduate Courses (MD/MS/Diploma) at Maharashtra State Government /Corporation Medical Colleges and Unaided Private/Minority Medical Colleges

State Common Entrance Test Cell, Mumbai conducts Online Combined Centralized Counselling for all Maharashtra State government and Unaided Private/Minority Medical Colleges. In order to participate in the admission process, it is necessary to fill State Common Entrance Test Cell, Mumbai MBBS PG Admission Counseling medical application form in the online mode. Candidates who have qualified NEET- PG is eligible for the Maharashtra PG medical admission to the state quota as well as All India Quota seats. State CET Cell offers PG medical admission for the 50% seats available in the Maharashtra State Government /Corporation Medical Colleges and 100% Unaided Private/Minority Medical Colleges.

The seats available for admission to medical postgraduate courses will be distributed as 50% to all Indian Quota & the remaining 50 % to the State Quota. From the State quota, 50% of Seats in post-graduate diploma courses from State Government/Corporation Medical Colleges will be reserved for In-service candidates in the State Government services, who have served at least 3 years in remote and/or difficult areas.

In unaided Private medical Colleges and Minority Medical Colleges,50% of seats are stated CET cell quota seats, and the remaining 50% seats are institutional quota seats including NRI quota seats. All these seats shall be filled by State Competent Authority NEET-PG. In the Institutional quota, a maximum of 15% of the seats may be filled in, from the NRI candidates.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT A GLANCE

The cost of the online application form for NEET-PG 2023 is Rs. 3000/-. This application fee is not refundable; hence, candidates are advised to go through the information brochure and ascertain their eligibility before paying the fee. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate to ascertain online payment of fees within the prescribed period, failing which the online application will be rejected. Along with the application form fee of Rs. 3000/-, every candidate will have to pay a refundable security deposit as shown in the following table.

Table 1: Deposit for admission through NEET PG 2023

Candidate paying deposit as per column (1) will be allowed to fill preferences of Government / Corporation / Government Aided Institutes only. Candidate paying deposit as per column (2) will be allowed to fill preferences of all the institutions i.e. Government / Corporation / Government Aided Institutes and Unaided Private / Minority institutes. Candidate should decide well in advance regarding payment of deposit. No extension will be allowed for payment of deposit after the last date of registration. This deposit will be utilized at the end of round 3 and subsequent rounds as described below and as shown in Table 2.

The following conditions will be applied for this refundable security deposit. Table 2: Scheme of Refundable Security Deposit

If deposit of a candidate is forfeited at the end of Round 2, such a candidate if wishes to participate in Round 3 and further Round(s) , he/she will have to register again for Round 3 by paying Application form fee of Rs. 3000/-, and the necessary deposit as stated in Table 1.

There shall be four or more Online CAP rounds of selection of candidates depending on the availability of vacant seats during subsequent round(s). The selection will be on the basis of merit and the preferences submitted by the candidate. Candidate will fill fresh choices for Round-1, Round-2, Round-3 and Online Stray Vacancy Round separately. The choices filled for each round will be valid for that round only. Choices filled for respective round(s) will not be carried forward for any subsequent round(s) except the preferences filled for Online Stray Vacancy Round which may be carried forward for subsequent Online Stray Vacancy Round(s) if any.

Eligibility criteria for NEET-PG medical postgraduate courses:

• To be eligible for selection to Medical Postgraduate courses a candidate belonging to General Category and EWS category must secure a minimum of marks at 50th percentile and a candidate belonging to constitutional reservation category and constitutional reservation category with a person with disability (PWD) claim must secure minimum of marks at 40th percentile in NEET-PG. A person with disability (PWD) from general category and EWS category must secure minimum of marks at 45th percentile in NEET-PG
• All candidates, who have passed the final M.B.B.S. examination from the college situated in Maharashtra and completed/completing one-year internship training by 31st March (will be revised as per new guideline on covid 19 by NMC) from a recognized medical college (Annexure-F) included in the Schedule of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 are eligible.
• The candidates who are domiciled in the State of Maharashtra and who have obtained admission under 15% All India quota / AIIMS / Central Government Institutions for MBBS course in the medical college/institution situated outside Maharashtra State and who have obtained the degree from a University situated outside the State of Maharashtra will also be eligible for the selection process of NEET-PG. Such candidates should submit (i) certificate from the Dean of respective medical college stating that the candidate was admitted under 15% all India quota /AIIMS / Central Government Institutions for MBBS course, and (ii) Candidate's Domicile certificate of Maharashtra State by virtue of residence.
• The Candidate must be medically fit.

Non-eligibility of Candidate. The following candidates are not eligible for the admission process through NEET-PG

• Candidates who have passed the Final MBBS examination from an institute located outside Maharashtra, except candidates who are Domicile of Maharashtra and selected under 15% of all India quota / AIIMS / Central Government Institution
• NRI candidates are not eligible for seats in Government/Corporation Medical Colleges, State quota of Central Government Medical Colleges/Government aided colleges/State CET Cell quota seats (including Institutional quota) of Unaided Private and Minority Medical Colleges. However, they are eligible for NRI quota seats of Unaided Private and Minority Medical Colleges.
• PIO/OCI/ foreign national candidates are not eligible for any seat through this process, in the State of Maharashtra.

Reservation Policy for Maharashtra PG Medical Admission:-

*EWS reservation is only applicable if there is an additional increase in the total intake, in particular, Board specialty on account of EWS quota by MCI

STEP FOR COUNSELING PROCESS:-

State Common Entrance Test Cell, Mumbai, Is Conducting Three Rounds of Counseling for NEET PG

1. FIRST-ROUND
2. SECOND ROUND
3. MOP ROUND (online)
4. Stray Vacancy Round (online)

Documents Needed for Verification:-

1. A printed copy of the Maharashtra PG medical application form
2. Copy of NEET PG Admit Card
3. Photo ID proof approved by GOI (Aadhar Card/Driving License, PAN Card, Passport)
4. NEET PG Result/ Rank card
5. Nationality Certificate /valid passport or School Leaving Certificate of HSC/ 12th Std
6. M.B.B.S. Degree/ Passing certificate
7. M.B.B.S. mark sheets
8. Internship completion certificate
9. Permanent / Provisional Registration certificate
10. Certificate showing the last attended institute was recognized by MCI
11. Medical Fitness Certificate in the prescribed format
12. Copy of Receipt of application fee payment
13. Caste certificate (If applicable)
14. Medical Disability Certificate in the prescribed format (If applicable)