UG Programme Admission Procedure

Invitation of Application

The State Council / Nodal Officer shall invite online applications for the graduate programme by an admission notice published in leading Gujarati and English Newspapers near the date of declaration of the results of Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination (HSCE).

Candidates seeking admission to the B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree course will apply after declaration of HSCE results as per guidelines given in the admission notice published in the Newspapers/website.

Eligibility For Admission in the First Year

A candidate under General Category for admission to the Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry degree course shall have to qualify in each of the subjects of English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and obtained 50% marks in aggregate of these subjects, at the qualifying examination and admission of students to B.V.Sc. and A.H. degree course shall be made only on the basis of his or her merit in the competitive entrance examination and no other merit or weightage shall be considered for admission to Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry degree course.

In respect of candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes or other special category of students as specified by the Government from time to time, marks required for admission shall be 5% less than that prescribed for general category i.e 47.5 % and where the seats reserved for the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes students in any State cannot be filled for want of requisite number of candidates fulfilling the minimum requirement prescribed from that State, then such vacancies shall be filled up on all India basis with students belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes obtaining not less than the minimum prescribed pass percentage.

For the purpose of admission a candidate shall appear in the competitive exam/Gujcet etc. conducted in the current academic year.

The minimum requirement of marks obtained in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English in theory papers at the HSCE examination for admission to B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree course shall be;

(i)	For Schedule Caste Candidates	47.5%
(ii)	For Schedule Tribe Candidates	47.5%
(iii)	For Socially and Educationally Backward Communities Candidates	50%
(iv)	For all other candidates other than those for which contrary provision has been made in the rules	50%

Admission of candidates under bilateral exchange programme shall be regulated by Veterinary Council of India.

A candidate shall not be allowed admission to B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree course including those admitted under 15% reserved quota of VCI if he/she suffers disabilities in physical fitness as listed below :

• Disability of total body including disability of chest / spine more than 50%.
• Disability of lower limb of more than 50%.
• Disability of upper limb.
• Visually handicapped candidates and those with hearing disability.
• Candidates with progressive diseases like myopathies, etc.
• Disabilities which otherwise would interfere in the performance of the duties of a veterinarian.

Age Limit

He or she has completed the minimum age of 17 years and the maximum age of 25 years on or before the 31st December of that year of his/her admission to the 1st year of Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry course; and there shall be relaxation of maximum age by five years for Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class candidates.

Reservation

The University shall reserve seats for admission of the candidates as under.

• For the candidates nominated by the Veterinary Council of India, New Delhi - 15%
• For the candidates from the Gujarat State - 85%

The seats available for the Gujarat State candidates shall be further reserved as under

Sr. No.	Particulars of Seats	Reservation	Remarks
1.	Schedule Caste (SC)	7 %	Reservation of these seats shall be interchangeable among SC/ST candidates.
2.	Schedule Tribes (ST)	15 %
3.	Socially and Educationally Backward Communities (SEBC)	27 %	As specified by the Govt. of Gujarat and does not fall under Creamy layer section
4.	Disables(Physically Handicapped)	3 %	It will be adjusted against respective category.
5.	Children of defence personnel and Ex-service man (Army)	1 %
6.	Economically weaker section) EWS	-	As per guidelines of state government and subject to approval from VCI, New Delhi
7	Parsi community/Kashmiri migrants/NRG	-	As per guidelines of state government

Merit list

• The merit list of the candidates who have applied for admission in the prescribed form, within the prescribed time limit and who are found eligible for admission under these rules shall be prepared in the following manner;
• Admission will be considered on the merit basis of competitive exam marks in Chemistry, Physics and Biology in the ratio of 25:25:50 or any other entrance test amended by the State Government from time to time.
• In case of two or more candidates obtaining equal marks, the inter-se merit of such candidates will be determined in order of preference by application of criteria as under.
  • Candidates obtaining higher marks in Biology.
  • Candidates obtaining higher marks in Physics.
  • Candidates obtaining higher marks in Chemistry.
  • Candidates obtaining higher marks in English.
  • Aggregate marks obtained in qualifying examination (Standard 12)
  • Candidate older in age to be preferred.

Fees and Deposits ( First year total: Rs. 21250)

The kinds of fees and deposits for this degree course shall be as under:-

Fees and deposits for all new student to be paid once at the time of Registration

• Caution Money Deposit
• Hostel Deposit
• Mess Deposit
• Electric Deposit
• Identity Card Fee
• Test fee for thalassemia

Fees to be paid annually in the beginning of the year by all students

• University Medical Exam
• Magazine Fee
• Student Aid Fund
• General Amenities
• Registration Fee
• Tuition Fee
• Library Fee
• Examination Fee
• Gymkhana Fee
• Cultural Activities Fee
• Laboratory Fee
• Hostel Fee
• Evaluation Report Fee
• Fees for mark sheets, Certificates, trans-scripts, etc.
• Provisional Certificates fee
• Fees for verification of grades
  • The rate of fees shall be as determined by the State Council from time to time.
  • The girl students shall be exempted from paying the tuition fees and hostel fees as per the policy of the State Government laid down from time to time.
  • The students enrolled in fourth professional year shall to pay one and half year fees for renewal of registration

Refund of Fees / Deposit

If the student desires to cancel his/her admission, fees paid shall not be refunded. Deposit will be refunded as per university rules

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Postgraduate Programme (PG) Admission Procedure

Applications received for Postgraduate Programmes (Master and Ph.D.) shall be scrutinized by the Committee. List of eligible candidates for entrance test will be displayed on website www.ku-guj.org. The eligible applicant must appear in entrance test. The basis of selection of candidate for the admission shall be on the merit. The merit list shall be prepared by giving 50:50 weightage to the marks of OGPA (percentage marks) of the last degree and common entrance test examination. Management Quota seats will be filled up from declared merit list only and marks of sports if applicable.

The admission of the Candidates will be decided by the admission committee based on the seats available in each subject. The decision of admission committee shall be final. Admission shall be given at the beginning of odd semester only, subject to the intake capacity and other infrastructure facilities of respective Institute.

Separate merit lists for students of Gujarat state shall be prepared for each subject as follows-

• Gujarat domicile students passed out from SAUs & KU of Gujarat
• Non-Gujarat domicile students passed out from SAUs & KU of Gujarat
• Eligible students of Agriculture Universities of other states

The admission will be given as per the aforesaid merit list order. The Management Quota seats will be filled as per merit and availability of seats.

Admissions shall be given at the beginning of odd Semester only, subject to intake capacity available at University. The decision of Admission Committee shall be final.

For admission to Master‘s degree, entrance test paper (multiple choice questions) shall be drawn from syllabus of group of subjects at graduate level of the concerned faculty.

For admission to Doctoral degree, entrance test paper (multiple choice questions) shall be drawn from subjects taught at Masters levels of the concerned disciplines.

Duration of the entrance test will be of one hour and total marks will be 100 for master and doctoral degree programmes.

Employees of the Kamdhenu University & Agricultural Universities of Gujarat, in-service trainees as well as employees nominated by State or Central Government or ICAR or other Agricultural Universities or Institutes/other organizations (NDDB and the Institutes signed MOU with KU shall not be required to appear in the entrance test.

If an employee of any State Government, Government of India, ICAR or other Agricultural University or Public / Co-operative Organization, is permitted by respective organization to pursue his/her studies leading to Masters or Ph.D. shall be admitted;

• On merit basis
• Subject to fulfillment of the minimum requirements.
• Sponsored candidate should produce deputation letter/sponsorship letter/study leave of 2/3 years duration letter from employer on or before counseling.
• Subject to intake capacity and infrastructure available.

Management Quota seats will be filled up on merit basis as decided by the admission committee during respective year.

Reservation of Seats

The University shall reserve seats for admission of the candidates as under

For the candidates nominated by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, GOI, New Delhi	25%
For the candidates who are domicile from the Gujarat state	75%
For the candidates nominated/sponsored by Government of Gujarat

General Conditions Regarding Reservation

If sufficient number of candidates of reserve categories is not available, the vacant seats will be filled up by the candidates who are domicile of Gujarat in order of their merit. Vacant seats of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will be filled up by other general category candidates on merit basis.

SC/ST and SEBC candidates who are able to secure admission on merit in general quota shall not however, be counted against the seat reserved for them.

A candidate availing benefit of the reserved seats shall be required to produce the certificate of belonging to a particular group from the competent authority. In case of any doubts or discrepancy about the castes/classes/group, the decision of the competent authority or the admission committee shall be treated as final.

Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (SC & ST)

The total number of seats to be reserved for the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe candidates shall be as laid down by the State Government from time to time. The same at present is as follows

• Twenty two percent shall be reserved for backward class candidates. Out of 22% seats, 7% shall be earmarked for the candidates belonging to scheduled castes and remaining 15 % shall be earmarked for candidates belonging to schedule tribes.
• Those candidates who are able to secure admission on general category merit shall not, however, be counted against the seat reserved for them, provided one has not availed any advantage of category.

If the need arises on account of vacant seats due to less number of applications in one group and shortage of seats due to more number of applications of eligible candidates in the other group, reciprocal adjustment in the above specified 7 % and 15 % seats between the two groups will be made.

If applications from backward class candidates are more than the reserved seats earmarked for them as above, admission will be given to them strictly on inter se merit within each of the two groups.

The admission of a student of a reserved category on a reserved seat shall be valid subject to the verification of cast certificate issued by the authority empowered by the State Government in this behalf. In case, the caste certificate is found invalid on verification, he/she shall not have right to claim his/her admission on reserved seat and if he/she has been already granted admission, such admission shall be cancelled at any point of time.

Socially and Educationally Backward Communities (SEBC)

Twenty seven percent (27%) of seats shall be reserved for the Socially and Educationally Backward Class of Gujarat State as laid down by the State Government at present. The reservation shall be subject to the following conditions and shall be modified as per the directive of the State Government from time to time. The reservation shall be subject to fulfillment of the following conditions.

• A candidate under this category shall be required to produce a Certificate that he/she belongs to a particular group of backward class (Caste) from the competent authority of the state. The candidate belonging to SEBC should produce the Certificate issued from the competent authority.
• The candidate belonging to SEBC should produce the Certificate issued from the competent authority, showing that he/she does not belong to creamy layer sections of the society. Such certificate should be issued on or after the 1st April of the academic year in which the candidate is seeking admission; otherwise he/she will not be considered under the SEBC category.
• SEBC candidates, who are able to secure admission under open category merit shall not however, be counted against the seats reserved for them provided one has not availed any advantage of category.
• The admission of a student of a reserved category on a reserved seat shall be valid subject to the verification of caste and non Creamy Layer certificate issued by the authority empowered by the State Government in this behalf. In case, the caste and non Creamy Layer certificate is found invalid on verification, he/she shall not have right to claim his/her admission on reserved seat and if he/she has been already granted admission, such admission shall be cancelled at any point of time.

Candidates Nominated by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi

Twenty Five percent (25%) of the total number of seats earmarked for out- state candidates shall be reserved for the candidates nominated by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi for Postgraduate courses on the basis of All India Entrance Test, subject to fulfilling minimum criteria laid down by KU of Gujarat.

Differently Abled (Physically Challenged) Candidates

Three percent seats are reserved for the Differently able (physically challenged) candidates of Gujarat State which are adjustable within the respective category and subject to the following conditions

• A candidate, having locomotors disability of one leg and partial arm, shall be eligible to apply for admission to a degree programme, subject to the submission of a Certificate to that effect from the Civil Surgeon / Medical Superintendent of the Government Hospital based on the opinion of the concerned specialist, that the locomotors disabled candidate is in a position to undertake the degree programme and can perform the functions of the concerned field. The admissions will be on the basis of inter se merit only.
• Physically challenged candidate shall have to fulfill the academic and minimum requirements of marks at the qualifying examination of his/her category as mentioned in Rule - 2.0 or 3.0.
• The admission of a student of a reserved category on a reserved seat shall be valid subject to the verification of certificate issued by the authority empowered in this behalf. In case the certificate is found invalid on verification, he/she shall not have right to claim his/her admission on reserved seat and if he/she has been already granted admission, such admission shall be cancelled at any point of time.

Foreign Students

• Foreign students will be admitted as per ICAR, New Delhi guidelines issued from time to time.
• The candidates admitted on Foreign student's seat, where seats are available for foreign candidate shall have to pay additional fee in US $ as may be prescribed by the University / ICAR from time to time.
• The candidature for foreign students shall be considered only if they are sponsored/recommended by their respective Government and / or by Government of India / ICAR.
• However, the total number of seats for admitting foreign students will be decided by the concerned University looking to infrastructural facility and availability of major guide/discipline.

Management Seats

Management Quota will be filled up subject to following conditions

• The candidates admitted under management quota seats where seats on self- finance are available, shall have to pay regular fees plus additional fees as may be prescribed by the University from time to time.
• The candidate seeking admission on management quota seat shall have to pay Payment seat fees for the first semester at the time of admission and thereafter, Semester wise fee shall be paid.
• The candidates on management quota seats will be selected for admission strictly on merit basis. The merit list shall be prepared by giving 50:50 weightage to the marks of OGPA (percentage marks) of the last degree and common entrance test examination.
• Once the admission is given on payment seat, it will not be converted in regular seat under any condition, after completion of the admission process.

Registration

A candidate selected for admission, shall report to the Principal of the concerned College on the date specified by the University for the purpose of First Registration.

The admission of the candidate, who failed to report to the concerned College on the specified date, shall be treated as cancelled.

A candidate, who is not in a position to report for first registration on the specified date due to unavoidable circumstances, may register by paying fee through post or by messenger on or before the date specified for registration.

A candidate, registered in the first Semester by payment of fee must complete the registration of course within a period of ten days from the date of his/her registration.

The First Registration shall consist of the following;

• Payment of Fee at the time of counseling / interview
• Production of original documents, Migration / Transfer Certificate as per Rule 28.0
• Registration for courses
• Submission of the course card within ten days

A student enrolled in the University shall be given a registration number, which shall be used along with his/her name in all the documents and correspondence pertaining to him.

If an enrolled P.G. Student joins a regular service before submitting thesis, his/her registration shall automatically be cancelled. The major guide will have to report this to the Registrar immediately. In any condition, if regular student does not report for study for a period of six months and above, even after repeated intimation by major guide to the student and his/her parents/guardians about his/her absence, his/her registration will be cancelled. Major Guide has to report the absence of such student to the registrar for necessary action.

Fee, Deposits, etc.

The kind of fee and deposits for Postgraduate Programmes shall be as under:

Fee and deposits for all new student to be paid once at the time of Registration

• Caution Money Deposit
• Hostel Deposit (for resident students)
• Mess Deposit
• Identity Card
• Test fee for thalassemia
• Electricity Deposit

Fee to be paid annually in the beginning of each odd Semester by all students

• University Medical Exam
• Magazine
• Student Aid Fund
• General Amenities

Semester fee to be paid at the beginning of each Semester

• Registration
• Tuition
• Library
• Examination
• Gymkhana
• Cultural Activities
• Laboratory
• Hostel
• Evaluation Report

The rate of fee shall be as determined by the KU from time to time.

The girl students having Indian citizenship shall be exempted from paying the tuition fee and hostel fee, as per the policy of the State Government laid down.

Refund of Fee

If the student desires to cancel admission after completion of admission process, the fees paid shall not be refunded. However, if a student takes admission in other Agricultural University of the Gujarat State, he/she shall be entitled for refund of the amount of all fee paid by him after deducting 500=00 (Rupees five hundred) as processing charges for Regular seats and 1000=00 (Rupees one thousand) for Management Quota seats.