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Activists of Students Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India staging a protest in front of the CET Cell in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan.
BANGALORE, APRIL 28. The Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has, for now, cancelled counselling (seat selection process) for allotment of post-graduate dental seats, which was scheduled for Thursday. The CET Cell officials said counselling had been cancelled for now until further orders from the Government. This follows an order of the High Court of Karnataka allocating the post-graduate dental seats in private dental colleges in the ratio of 80:20 (management quota - 80 per cent and Government quota - 20 per cent), as against the 50:50 ratio fixed by the Government earlier. The CET Cell allotted post-graduate medical seats to 1,500 candidates with 501st rank to 2000th rank here on Wednesday. The CET Cell officials asked the candidates to submit a demand draft for Rs. 2 lakhs towards fees, which had been fixed tentatively for post-graduate medical courses. Depending on the direction of the High Court regarding the petition filed by junior doctors seeking restoration of last year's fee structure for post-graduate medical and dental courses, the Cell would refund the money to the candidates, if the fee were reduced, they said. While a few candidates paid the fee, those who sought time to make the payment were allowed to select the available seats. They were given time till April 30 to pay the fees, only after which they would be given the admission order, the officials said. Counselling for allotment of medical seats for candidates with 2001st rank to the last rank would be held on Thursday according to the schedule.
Demonstration
Meanwhile, representatives of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a demonstration in front of the CET Cell demanding that the fee fixation committee withdraw the increase in fee for post-graduate medical seats from Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 2 lakhs per annum and for post-graduate dental seats to Rs. 1 lakh per annum. They demanded that legislation should be introduced to regulate admission and fixing of fee structure in private professional education institutions.
Hearing
The Justice Murgod Fee Committee started hearing on the pro-forma justifying the fee structure submitted by private unaided colleges offering medical, dental and engineering courses here on Wednesday. As many as five colleges from North Karnataka today justified the fee structure fixed by them for the professional courses, based on the infrastructure and facilities provided by them. After the hearing, the Murgod Committee would fix a definite fee structure.
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