PMDC cancels 27 excess admissions, fines Rs2m per seat

The Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) has cancelled 27 excess admissions at the Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry (HCMD) on the allotted seats of BDS, and imposed a fine of Rs2 million per seat for giving excess admissions.

The PMDC wrote to the Hamdard University registrar saying that the council’s admissions committee was informed that the HCMD had been provisionally recognised for the admission of 50 BDS seats annually.

The letter said the committee noted that the HCMD had admitted 77 BDS students for the session 2022-2023, which includes 27 admissions beyond its seat allocation. HU/HCMD representatives pleaded that they had granted 27 more BDS admissions for the session 2022-2023 in lieu of the vacant seats for the session 2021-2022. They requested that the HCMD be granted a one-time waiver in the matter as a special case.

After the perusal of the record and the hearing of the HU/HCMD representatives, the PMDC admissions committee said the college had committed a violation by granting 27 unauthorised admissions for the session 2022-2023.

After detailed deliberations, the committee decided to impose a penalty on the college in accordance with the PMDC Medical and Dental Undergraduate Education (Admissions, Curriculum and Conduct) Policy and Regulations, 2023. The penalty includes a fine of Rs2 million per excess admission, and the cancellation of all the unauthorised admissions in accordance with the PMDC regulations.