panaji when the second round of admissions to professional courses in goa begins in the third week of july there will be 110 new seats on offer combined in medicine and engineering these seats include the 50 additional seats sanctioned for the medicine course by the state and 60 seats for the electronics and communication engineering course at the new institute at assagao the 50 seats for medicine will be filled in the second round of admissions which will be held in the third week of july the distribution of the 50 seats under the reserved and other categories had to be worked out so the seats could not be filled in the first round and will be filled now deputy director for technical education pradip kusnur said he said that the 120 seats at the new fr agnel engineering institute at assagao in the computer and mechanical engineering streams have already been filled but the 60 seats for the electronics stream will be filled in the second round the 60 seats have been approved already by the all india council for technical education and are only waiting the affiliation of the goa university they will also be filled in the second round with the new medicine seats kusnur said kusnur said that other than the 110 confirmed seats that will be available for takers in the second round another close to 100 seats are expected to fall vacant by the next round in the different professional courses we cannot say anything for sure but usually close to 100 seats are vacant for filling after the second round of admissions as the national institutes of technology and other national institutes also have their five to six admission rounds going on simultaneously our first round of admissions has been completed and all the seats are filled for now but if the students get into a national institute in the meantime they vacate this seat by our second round kusnur said the directorate of technical education conducts the goa common entrance test gcet and based on its results draws a merit list for admissions to the various professional degree courses in goa which include medicine dentistry pharmacy engineering and homeopathy tnn