The Indian Nursing Council (Diploma in Public Health Nursing), Regulations, 2020.

The Diploma in Public Health Nursing (DPHN) is a one year training program and its curriculum is conceptualized encompassing foundational short courses and major specialty courses for public health nursing and management. The foundations to public health nursing such as applied microbiology and pathology, Nutrition and food safety, Information, Education and Communication including individual and family education and counselling and the major specialty courses are organized under Community Health Nursing-I & Community Health Nursing-II.

Ministry of education extends the last date for submission of application for National Means cum Merit Scholarship scheme till 15th October 2022.

The National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS) is boarded on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) – a one stop platform for scholarship schemes given to students. NMMSS scholarships are disbursed directly into the bank accounts of selected students by electronic transfer through Public Financial Management System (PFMS) following DBT mode. This is a 100% centrally sponsored scheme.

The National Medical Commission 1st (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2022.

Section 15 of the Act provides for conduct of a common final year undergraduate examination, to be known as the National Exit Test (NExT) which shall be the basis for Registration to practice medicine, admission to PG medical courses and Screening Test for foreign medical graduates to practice modern medicine.

PCI issues circular for Implementation of DigiLocker-NAD in the Pharmacy Institutions.

The government of India has assigned the National Academic Depository (NAD) implantation via DigiLocker to facilitate students to get authentic educational documents/certificate in digital format directly from their original issuers. The digital copy available in the digilocker will be treated at par with the original physical documents as per rule 9A of the information technology (preservation & retention by intermediary providing Digilocker facilities) rules, 2016.