LAHORE: Around 65,000 candidates including 41,000 female and 24,000 male, will appear in the Punjab Medical & Dental Colleges’ Admission Test (MDCAT) on Sunday. The test will be conducted by University of Health Sciences (UHS).
The Punjab government has finalised the arrangements for the test and has deputed senior bureaucrats as monitoring officers, while medical professors will conduct the test. Divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners of respective districts will act as ‘focal persons’ to look after the arrangements of the test. UHS has also deputed around 5500 invigilators and around 1,000 superintendents and deputy superintendents to conduct the test.
The test will be held simultaneously at 28 centres established in 13 cities of Punjab, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, D.G. Khan, and Hassan Abdal.
Briefing on the arrangement of the test, UHS Vice Chancellor Dr Junaid Sarfraz Khan said that the Punjab chief secretary had directed all concerned departments to make immaculate arrangements for the smooth and flawless conduct of the admission test.
The district administration, under the supervision of concerned divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners, had finalised the security and logistic plans at their respective centres, Junaid Khan said.
He said that district police officers would be responsible for security and deployment of police personnel at the test centres. Police would ensure extensive patrolling and technical sweeping of the area before the commencement of the test.
Walk-through gates and mobile jammers would also be installed at all major centres. Restrictions would be imposed under Section 144 on the entry of unauthorised persons in the premises of examination centres, UHS VC informed.
He further said that parents and other attendants of the candidates would be provided waiting areas near the test centres. Traffic police had been directed to make proper traffic and parking arrangements to ensure smooth flow of traffic near the test centres, he said.
