61% of seats shall be filled in open merit category and 39% from amongst the reserved categories in order of merit. In case the fractional part attached to the open merit quota is >0.5 one full seat shall be allotted to it. The break-up of seats amongst various reserved categories and the authority competent to issue the certificate under a reserved category is detailed in Table 1.

Only candidates residing within the territorial jurisdiction of University of Kashmir and/or those who have passed their qualifying examination through University of Kashmir are eligible to seek admission under open merit as well as reserved categories (a – h). However, in case of courses/programmes not offered by University of Jammu, candidates residing in any part of the State are eligible to apply under open and reserved categories (a – h). Candidates residing outside the territorial jurisdiction of University of Kashmir (who have not passed their qualifying examination through University of Kashmir) shall be eligible to apply under category ‘i’ for all subjects/programmes unless otherwise indicated.

In case of M Sc Bio-technology, however, only two seats shall be available for reserved categories and shall be offered to two candidates who top the merit list of reserved categories, provided that only one candidate shall be taken from one category.

	Reserved category	% of seats	Authority for issuing Certificate
a).	Scheduled caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST)	8 %	Tehsildar concerned
b).	RBA/ALC	12 %	- do-
c).	Weak & Under privileged classes (WUP)	2 %	- do-
d).	Children of permanent Resident of Defence Personnel/Children of Ex- Defence personnel/Children of Permanent residents of Para –military Forces and state police personnel Serving in the state (CDP)	3 %	Commanding Officer of Unit Zila Sainik Welfare Officer and DIG concerned respectively
e).	Candidates possessing outstanding proficiency in Sports (SPT)	2 %	Director, Physical Education University of Kashmir
f).	Candidates possessing outstanding proficiency in NCC (NCC)	2 %	“B’’ Group commandent,“C” Director NCC
g).	Physical handicapped (PHC)	3 %	Chief Medical Officer concerned
h).	Children of Gojjar and Bakerwals (CGB)	5%	Tehsildar concerned
i).	Persons from outside the State inducing foreign nationals and students who have graduated from Jammu University (OSJ)	2 %	Registrar of the university concerned /Embassy concern in case of Foreign Nationals

One supernumerary seat under the category ‘Children of Permanent Employees of the University’ shall be provided for each programme over and above the prescribed intake capacity. The eligibility for admission and the procedure of selection would be the same as prescribed for categories a – h above. The authority for issuing the eligibility certificate shall be Registrar, University of Kashmir.

In case of a programme (s) under a certain reserved category the percentage share allotted is not sufficient to add up to one seat or where it does not add up to a whole number and carries also a fractional part of a seat, the following mechanism shall be followed:
i) In the first place, the number of candidates to be selected for a particular category shall be determined by the integral part of the number of candidates allotted for that particular category.
ii) The fractional parts attached to all reserved categories shall be clubbed together to take care of the remaining seats that shall remain available after taking into account the number of those admitted under (i) above. Here again, selection shall be made as per the relative merit position of candidates competing for admission against those categories with non-zero fractional representation, subject to the following provisos:
a) Notwithstanding the individual merit of the candidates, at the most one candidate shall be selected from each category in (ii) above
b) In the case of programmes with the total number of applicants entitled for admission under Reserved Categories exceeding the total number of seats under Reserved Categories, allotment of seats shall be determined by (i) and (ii), while making sure that preference shall be given to those categories which are not represented under (i).
iii) For M Ed programme, the certificate of experience at school-level should be countersigned by the concerned CEO and in case of college teachers it shoud be countersigned by the Dean College Development Council, University of Kashmir

g and h in Table 1 must be in accordance with SRO 126 of 28 June 1994 of the J&K Government and subsequent amendments/SRO’s issued by the Government in this regard. For programmes like MBA, MFC, MCA, M Sc Biotechnology there shall be no reservation for the category “Persons from outside the Kashmir Division including foreign nationals”(i). If a candidate is eligible to apply for admission under more than one reserved category, he/she shall be required to choose only one reserved category for one programme under which he/she would like to be considered, which shall be final, and unchangeable. For example, if a candidate is eligible under three categories RBA, NCC and Sports, he/she shall have to choose only one of the three categories under which he/she shall compete for admission for a particular programme. Say, if he/she is an applicant for PG Programmes in A, B,C and D subjects, he/she may compete in all the courses only under one of these three categories (RBA, NCC or Sports whichever he likes) or he/ she may compete (say for instance) under RBA for A , under NCC for B, under Sports for C and under RBA for D. He/she is not, however, permitted to compete under more than one category for a single programme; i.e. he cannot for instance apply under RBA as well as NCC for a single programme

Candidates belonging to Gojjar & Bakerwal category shall be required to clearly specify whether admission is being sought under “Scheduled Tribe Category” or under “Gojjar & Bakerwal category”. Also the candidates belonging to “Social Caste” should apply under “Weak and Under Privilege (WUP) Category”.

A candidate having certificate “Resident of Areas adjoining the Line of Actual Control (ALC)” shall be considered under the category “Resident of Backward Area”.

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