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Goa fills nearly all nursing seats after admission rule eased
Panaji: Nearly all of the 340 nursing seats in Goa are filled after the state relaxed admission criteria for nursing programmes from the 2026-27 academic year. The State Nursing Council decided that 45% marks in Class XII physics, chemistry and biology for general category students and 40% for reserved category are sufficient for nursing admissions, provided they have appeared for NEET, with no cut-off score required. Earlier, a NEET (UG) cut-off of around 50% was needed.
Only 10 seats remain vacant at Vrundavan Institute of Nursing Education. Another admission round is scheduled for October 2026 to fill these seats. Officials said the relaxation was introduced because other states have varied criteria and no standard NEET cut-off, and some students were being left out despite seat availability in Goa.
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The admission relaxation directly benefits private nursing colleges linked to chief minister Pramod Sawant, health minister Vishwajit Rane and former chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar, all of which have been established in recent years and now show full occupancy. The state-owned Institute of Nursing Education in Margao, with 44 seats, also fills. The policy change resolves a capacity utilisation problem for the new institutes without adding a separate state test, but leaves open whether the lower academic threshold will affect graduate quality or employability. The October round will test if the remaining 10 Vrundavan seats also clear.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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