The Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training will be holding online counselling for admission to Two year Diploma in Pharmacy in the institutions affiliated to the Board and approved by AICTE & PCI. The candidates are advised to read the entire prospectus carefully before online Registration. 1. ELIGIBILITY Eligibility for admission to two year Diploma Course in Pharmacy : i) The minimum educational qualification for admission to the diploma course in Pharmacy course will be pass in any of the following examinations with Physics, Chemistry and Biology or Mathematics:- 1. Intermediate examination in Science. 2. The first year of the three year degree course in science. 3. 10+2 examination (academic stream) in science. 4. Pre-degree examination 5. Any other qualification approved by the Pharmacy Council of India as equivalent to any of the above examinations. Note : As per the decision of the PCI: candidates who have passed 10+2 from National/State Open Schools are also eligible for admission to diploma in Pharmacy. ii) Admission of candidates shall be made on the basis of the relative merit of the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology or Mathematics in the Qualifying Examination. For reserved seats the relative merit of candidates shall be determined within each category of reservation. The admission to the seats reserved for sportsmen/sportswomen category will be made as per the policy framed by the Sports Department, Govt. of Punjab/U.T. 2. ONLINE REGISTRATION 1. Last date for online Registration is 11th June 2018. 2. Original certificates are to be shown at the time of reporting in the allocated institute. 3. Registration Fee to be submitted alongwith the Online Registration is Rs. 1250/- for all Candidates other than SC/ ST. (Rs 1000/- for SC/ST candidates) 4. Registration Fee will be accepted through online mode of payment only. 3. PROCEDURE FOR ON-LINE COUNSELING National Informatics Centres (NIC), New Delhi has been entrusted with the task of implementing ON-LINE OFF CAMPUS counseling. The procedure to be followed for ON-LINE OFF CAMPUS counseling is as under. Objectives The Board has adopted ON-LINE OFF CAMPUS counseling with following objectives: 1 To bring 100% transparency in seats allotment and admissions. 2 To build strong public interface to minimize travel burdens on the students and their parents for counseling. 3 To providing enough time to students for submission, change, delete, selection of multiple choices courses/ institutes from anywhere any time. 4 To make provide of required information, answers to queries, reports at different levels through the counseling website. 5 To organize centralized database and centralized monitoring. 6 To achieve Paper-Less counseling. 7 To make secured and controlled data access at every level. Strategies NIC has been entrusted to accomplish the task of Software development, testing and implementation of Web based ON-LINE OFF CAMPUS registration and counselling for admissions to all AICTE approved technical diploma level courses being run in all technical institutions in the State. To achieve the said objectives, a website shall be launched by National Informatics Centres (NIC), the premier Science & Technology organization of Government of India under Union Ministry of Information Communication and Technology. The website shall entail all the information, procedures, instructions and guidelines for online counseling. 1. Admissions shall be made through ON-line counseling by NIC, in collaboration with the Board. Detailed instructions for online admission procedure will also be available on Board�s websites www. punjabteched.net and www.punjabteched.com. 2. To participate in ON-LINE counseling, it shall be mandatory for every candidate to register through counseling website as per schedule available on the website. 3. The candidates who participate successfully in the counseling will be required to exercise their initial choices of branches and Institutes through Internet from places of their convenience or the designated polytechnics. 4. The procedure for exercising choices or seeking other information is simple and menu driven. It shall guide the candidates by appropriate messages on the computer screen. 5. After declaration of the result of the 1st counseling, the candidates shall be directed to report in the allocated institute for verification of requisite testimonials in original. The admission of the candidates shall be confirmed by institute only after online payment of admission fee. 6. After joining by a candidate at the allocated institute, the institute shall update the status of joining/ non reporting online. Students joining the Institutes can also see the list of admitted students under one particular Institute at the counseling site "www.psbte.gov.in" 7. The candidates who would like to upgrade their earlier allotted seats in 1st counseling, are also permitted to participate in the subsequent counseling. In such cases, if candidate is allotted a seat in subsequent counsellings, his/her previous allotment of seat shall stand automatically cancelled and the candidate shall not have any claim whatsoever on the previous allotment. 8. At the time of reporting for verification of certificates and confirmation of the seat, the institute shall confirm his/her admission only after verifying the testimonials in original and proof of fee deposited. Candidates must bring the following certificates at the time of admission (reporting to the institute) : 1. Original Certificates: s Qualifying Examination Detail Marks Sheet s Matriculation Certificates (Date of Birth) s Character Certificate from institutions last attended s Proof of Residence/Domicile Certificate s Certificate in support of claim under reserved category. s Income Certificate, if admitted under Tuition Fee waiver seat / Reserved Category in support of claim under reserved category. Candidates who fail to produce the requisite documents will not be admitted. 2. Attested copies of above certificates. 3. One recent stamp size photograph.