Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat, Nitin Patel on Friday,declared that students, who are born in Gujarat and have cleared their class 10th and 12th exams from the state, have been exempted from producing domicile certificates.
The same day Nitin Patel was announcing that the admission process for MBBS, Dental, Ayurveda, Homeopathy and Naturopathy seats have been made online.
What is domicile certificate?
Domicile certificate or residence certificate is a necessary legal document for proving that a person is having a residence in a particular state.
Domicile Certificate is used to get local preference in many situations. It is required to avail resident based reservations which are made in educational institutes or government jobs, etc. It is also used for students to apply for scholarship schemes aimed at residents of the State. Domicile certificate may also be required by institutions giving loan as proof of place of residence.
“Last year several students faced a lot of problems while trying to get domicile certificates. Keeping those difficulties in mind, we have exempted the students, who are born in Gujarat and have passed their 10th and 12th grade exams from the five recognised boards in Gujarat, from producing domicile certificate from this year onwards,” Patel said, while addressing media persons in Gandhinagar Friday.
Patel pointed out that there are 4,650 MBBS seats, 1,155 dental (BDS), 1,720 ayurveda, 3,3380 homeopathy and 30 seats for naturopathy in Gujarat. “As per our preliminary assessment about 10,000 students are expected to apply for the medical seats in Gujarat and this move will benefit 8,000 of them, he said.”
“Only those students, who are born outside Gujarat, but have passed 10th and 12th exams in Gujarat and whose parents are living in the state, will have to produce domicile certificates,” he added.
Patel added that the students from Gujarat can also apply for 10 seats that have been reserved in a new 150-seat medical college in the union territory region of Silvassa that have begun functioning from this academic year.
The entire admission process have been made online and Axis Bank has been selected by the state government for the collection of application fees.