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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-30122025-268931
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 836]
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2025/PAUSHA 5, 1947
MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
(Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 23rd December, 2025
G.S.R. 922(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by section 64, read with section 17 of the Indian
Veterinary Council Act, 1984 (52 of 1984), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Veterinary Council of India (Foreign
Veterinary Graduate Registration) Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions. - (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(a) "Act" means the Indian Veterinary Council Act, 1984 (52 of 1984);
(b) "foreign veterinary graduate" means a person who has acquired a degree in Veterinary Science or Veterinary
Science and Animal Husbandry from a University or institution not included in the Second Schedule to the Act;
(c) "Schedule" means the Schedule annexed to the Act;
(d) "University” shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (f) of section 2 of the University Grants, Commission
Act, 1956 (3 of 1956).
(2) Words and expressions used in these rules and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the meaning
assigned to it in the Act.
3. Prohibition of practicing veterinary medicine without acquisition of degree and registration. — (1) No person shall
practice veterinary medicine in India, without acquiring a degree in Bachelor of Veterinary Science or Veterinary
Science and Animal Husbandry, from a University or institution, specified in the Second Schedule.
(2) No person shall practice veterinary medicine in India, without registration as the Indian veterinary practitioner,
under the provisions of Chapter III of the Act.
4. Registration of foreign veterinary graduate. No foreign veterinary graduate shall be granted registration in
accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of the Act, unless he has-
(i) successfully undergone and completed a degree course in a foreign veterinary University or institution with
minimum duration of fifty-four months;
(ii) successfully undergone and completed an internship program for a minimum duration of twelve months after
acquiring the degree in the same foreign veterinary University or institution;
(iii) acquired the foreign veterinary degree with medium of instructions in English language;
(iv) successfully passed the examination from the foreign University or institution in all compulsory subjects specified in
the Veterinary Council of India Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education- (Bachelor of Veterinary Science and
Animal Husbandry - Degree Course) Regulations, 2016, notified vide number F.No.12-5/2015-VCI, dated the
8th July, 2016 and published in the Gazette of India in Part III, Section 4, dated the 12th July, 2016;
(v) registered with such such professional regulatory body which is competent to grant registration to practice
veterinary medicine in that foreign country ; and
(vi) passed the test conducted by the Council or any other institution specified by the Central Government, by
notification; and
(vii) successfully undergone and completed an internship program for a minimum duration of twelve months in
India after successful completion of internship program referred to in clause (ii) above.
5. Eligibility conditions of qualifications for registration. - A foreign veterinary graduate shall be granted
registration, if he has -
(i) successfully undergone and completed a course of theory, practical and clinical training equivalent to and
at par with the course of a degree in Bachelor of Veterinary Science or Veterinary Science and Animal
Husbandry specified in the First Schedule;
(ii) successfully undergone and completed the internship of twelve months along with hands-on training in
clinical subjects and their sub-specialties referred to in the Veterinary Council of India Minimum
Standards of Veterinary Education- (Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry - Degree
Course) Regulations, 2016;
(iii) successfully undergone and completed the entire course and internship from the University or institution
situated in the same foreign country;
(iv) successfully undergone and completed the entire course of study and internship with in a total duration of
ten years from the date of joining the course.
6. Power of Central Government to relax rules. - The Central Government, in some special circumstances, may relax
any provision of these rules, by notification and subject to such conditions as may be specified in that notification,
with respect to any class or category of persons.
[F. No.:K-12052-1/9/2025-LH]
R.S. SINHA, Addl. Secy.
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