This entry is an admission notice issued by the Institute of Medical Sciences at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for its postgraduate medical degree courses, and it is not a scholarship. It carries no award, stipend or financial assistance. The notice invited applications for admission to postgraduate degree courses across a wide range of clinical and pre clinical subjects, with selection made through an entrance test held on an all India basis at Varanasi. The year in the title has long passed, and postgraduate medical admissions in India have since moved to a national entrance examination with centralised counselling. This record should therefore be read as a description of an earlier admission cycle, with the current process taken from the university's own website and from the national counselling authority.

Under the notice recorded here, candidates were expected to hold a recognised bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery and to have completed the compulsory rotating internship by the date the institute set, while those who already held a postgraduate degree in the same stream were excluded. Postgraduate medical admission in India is now governed by the national entrance examination and by the regulator's rules on qualifying degrees, internship completion, registration and reservation, so the conditions that applied then may no longer hold. Candidates should not plan on the basis of this record and should read the eligibility conditions in the current information bulletin published by the examination authority and by the university.

Under the notice recorded here, the application form could be downloaded free from the university website or obtained by post from the office of the institute's director by sending a self addressed envelope with a demand draft drawn in the director's favour, with the envelope marked as a form request, after which the completed form, with photographs and the application fee, had to be submitted by the announced closing date. Postgraduate medical admissions are now handled through online registration for the national entrance examination followed by centralised counselling, so this postal route is of historical interest only. Candidates should follow the registration steps and the timetable published by the current examination and counselling authorities and by the university.