Offline Course

(1) The eligibility for admission in the Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (B.H.M.S.) Course shall be, namely: -

(a) The candidate shall have passed 10+2 or its equivalent examination from any recognized Board with Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and have obtained a minimum of fifty percent. marks taken together in Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology in case of students belonging to the general category, and forty percent. marks in case of a student belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes: Provided that in respect of a person with disability specified under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016), the qualifying marks in the examinations shall be forty-five percent. In the case of the General category and forty percent. in the case of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes.

(b) Biology/Biotechnology studied as an Additional Subject at the 10+2 level also shall not be considered for such admission:

(c) A candidate who passed 10+2 from Open School or as a Private candidate shall not be eligible to appear for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test.

(d) No candidate shall be considered for admission in Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (B.H.M.S.) Unless the candidate attains the age of seventeen years on or before the 31st day of December of the year of admission in the first year of the Course;

(2) There shall be a uniform Entrance Examination for all Homoeopathy Medical Institution namely National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to under-graduate course in medical institution in each academic year and shall be conducted by an authority designated by the National Commission for Homoeopathy: 50 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY [PART III— S EC.4] Provided that for foreign national candidate, any other equivalent qualification approved by the Central Government may be allowed for admission and sub- regulation (2) of regulation 4 shall not be applicable in this behalf.