Section 2: Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “Government” means the State Government; (b) “Government seats” mean,— (i) all the seats in M.B.B.S., B.D.S., B.S.M.S., B.A.M.S., B.U.M.S. and B.H.M.S. courses in Government Colleges, excluding the seats reserved for all India quota; and (ii) 65 per cent of seats in M.B.B.S., B.D.S., B.S.M.S., B.A.M.S., B.U.M.S. and B.H.M.S. courses in non-minority educational institutions and 50 per cent of seats in minority educational institutions, or the seats as arrived at in accordance with the consensus between such institutions and the Government; (c) “Government schools” mean and includes Government schools, Corporation schools, Municipal schools, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare schools, Kallar Reclamation schools, Forest Department schools and other schools managed by Government Departments; (d) “Students studied in Government schools” mean children who have studied from Sixth Standard to Higher Secondary Course in a Government school and qualifi ed in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test. Explanation.— For the purpose of this defi nition, children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group who have studied upto eighth standard in a specifi ed category school or an unaided school, as per clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and studied all remaining standards up to Higher Secondary Course in a Government school and qualifi ed in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, shall be deemed to be ‘Students studied in Government schools’; (e) “minority educational institution” means an educational institution recognized or declared as such by the Government, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed; (f) “M.B.B.S., B.D.S., B.S.M.S., B.A.M.S., B.U.M.S. and B.H.M.S. courses” mean the fi rst year of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Bachelor of Siddha Medicine and Surgery, Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery, Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery and Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery; (g) “National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test” means the Eligibilitycum-Entrance Test conducted by the authority designated under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, the Dentists Act, 1948, Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine) Regulations, 1986 and the Homeopathy (Degree Course) Regulations, 1983 for admission to M.B.B.S., B.D.S., B.S.M.S., B.A.M.S., B.U.M.S. and B.H.M.S. courses, respectively; (h) “private school” means a school which is not a Government school.