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Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

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Seat selection process to begin by month-end

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 20. The Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell is likely to commence the admission-round seat-selection process for the government quota of medical, dental and engineering seats by the end of this month.

But the talks on Tuesday between the Government and private college managements on the fee structure did not yield any positive results, although a consensus formula was said to be round the corner.

According to one fee-structure formula that was doing the rounds, the annual fee for engineering courses would be Rs. 90,000 for the 50 per cent management-quota seats, Rs. 20,000 for 25 per cent of seats (government quota) and Rs. 45,000 for the remaining seats (which are also under government quota).

To maintain a uniform fee structure, the managements will subsidise the fees for government quota seats.

But sources said the fee structure was yet to take a definite shape.

The colleges attached to the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) have already started their admission process and placed newspaper advertisements inviting applications.

The colleges are reportedly preparing the inter-se merit list, based on the COMED-K rankings.

The process is likely to be completed by July 31, consortium sources said.

On Monday, the State Government constituted two sub-committees to finalise the fee structure for medical, engineering and dental courses.

The two panels, which comprise both government and management representatives, met here on Tuesday.

Panel to meet today

A COMED-K official said the managements and the Government had worked out a "very legally viable and student friendly" fee structure formula for medical and dental courses.

However, he refused to elaborate, stating that the formula had to be ratified by the Cabinet Sub-Committee and the management associations.

The Cabinet Sub-Committee has scheduled a meeting to discuss the matter on Wednesday.

Following the Supreme Court order on seat sharing in the ratio of 50:50, the CET Cell had cancelled its admission-round seat-selection process.

Students who had secured admission to various medical colleges would now have to go through the process all over again.

More medical seats

Although the re-counselling would have fewer government quota seats due to the apex court's order on seat sharing in the ratio of 50:50, about 400 medical seats are likely to be added to the matrix, half of them under the government quota.

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