raipur chhattisgarh professional examination board cgpeb has announced the dates of prebed predeled and nursing entrance examinations nearly two weeks after the supreme court granted a temporary concession to the chhattisgarh government to implement the law providing 58 per cent reservation to scheduled castes scs scheduled tribes sts and other backward classes obcs in the admissions to staterun educational institutions and in the state government jobslakhs of candidates who had been eagerly waiting for various recruitmententrance examinations to get admission to various professional courses in educational institutes and job in government departments under the quota have breathed a sigh of relief with the announcement of the dates by the boardas per the schedule prebed predeled examinations will be conducted by the cgpeb for selecting students eligible for admission in bed and d el ed colleges on june 17 followed by examination for admission in bsc msc nursing on june 24the candidates having chhattisgarh domicile certificate and applying for the examinations need not to pay the examination fees as the state government has exempted them from paying the fees said the cgpeb earlier candidates used to pay examination fees ranging from rs 200 to rs 500 with some relaxation for reserved category candidatesonline applications for these examinations will be received till may 28 and the candidates can rectify their mistakes in the applications if any by may 29admit cards for prebed predeled examinations will be available on the cgpeb website on june 9 and for bsc nursing msc nursing and post basic nursing admit cards will be available on the website on june 16chhattisgarh state public service commission and cgpeb conduct more than a dozen competitive examinations every year but these government agencies could not announce the dates because of the chhattisgarh high court order in september 2022 that struck down the chhattisgarh lok seva sc st and obc reservation act 2011 which provided 58 per cent reservation including 12 for scs 32 per cent for sts and 14 per cent obcs in public services and staterun educational institutionseven as we are delayed by nearly a month to announce the dates of competitive and entrance examinations we are not making much delay in holding the examinations unlike previous years we are announcing the dates in a phase manner instead of at one go we are coming up with the date of pmt pet and other entrance examinations likely in the next week said cgpeb examination controller dr sudhir uprit meanwhile the cgpeb has made mandatory the profile registration by the candidates applying for the entrancerecruitment examinations when a candidate submits hisher applications for more than one examination he or she has to give his or her personal information in every application in such a situation the possibility of error increases if a candidate registers his or her profile then the personal information will automatically be filled when they apply for the recruitmententrance examinations the profile registration is a onetime affair said the examination controllerif a candidate makes any mistake during the