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A day of chaos for medical seat aspirants

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 31. Medical seat aspirants and their parents were hard hit by the admission muddle on Saturday. Without a centralised admission process, the students seeking management- quota seats had to run from one college to another located in different cities.

For many others seeking a Government quota seat, it was a harder bargain. Many colleges allegedly demanded about Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 52,000 in addition to the fee fixed by the A.B. Murgod fee committee. A medical college in Tumkur is alleged to have asked each student to pay an additional Rs. 52,500 "to cover anticipated breakages." Parents who had come unprepared for this had to return with their children's dreams of admission to the MBBS course in tatters.

Re-allotment

The Common Entrance Test Cell's re-allotment of merit seats only added to the troubles. A student, who had secured a seat in a Tumkur college, was asked by the cell to report to a college in Belgaum. "We got to know of the allotment only at 10 a.m. How can we reach Belgaum in time before the closure of the admission process there," asked Manjunath, the student's father. Another medical college refused to entertain any students for admissions and had its gates locked. However, it reportedly agreed to admit students on Sunday, following the CET Cell's intervention.

Candidates return

Trouble was still brewing at the CET Cell. Many candidates, who had been allotted seats in the St. John's Academy of Medical Sciences, returned empty handed. The college has been allowed by the Supreme Court to fill 100 per cent of its seats on its own. The cell officials have to arrange alternative seats for them.

Students who were outside the 50 per cent government quota but within the 75 per cent quota (under the 75:25 ratio), were overjoyed when the CET Cell sent their names to the colleges. But the colleges refused to admit them.

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