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By Our Staff Reporter
BANGALORE, AUG. 15. A large number of engineering, medical and dental seat aspirants, the Government and private college managements stood fettered on Independence Day. They were all tied-up in the messy professional college admission tangle, all set to enter a new legal phase with the crucial Supreme Court hearing on legislation government admission to professional colleges in the State beginning on Monday. Private college managements have challenged legislation stipulating a 75:25 seat-sharing ratio in favour of the Government. The Government, through its Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, has completed a major portion of the counselling for engineering seats based on the 75:25 ratio.
50:50 matrix
Although the CET Cell officials said they were prepared with an alternative 50:50 matrix in case the court verdict went against the Government, the students were not so sure. After all, counselling had been postponed twice and the medical seat selection process was even rescheduled from the first rank. To make up for lost time, the CET Cell conducted the engineering counselling even on Independence Day when rank-holders from 11,001 to 12,700 were counselled. According to the schedule announced on August 4, the engineering round had to be completed on August 21 before the medical admission round was held from August 23 to August 27. The Medical Council of India had set August 28 as deadline to complete the second round of counselling for medical and dental seats.
Confident
Despite the odds against it, the Government was confident of winning the case. The Government's contention was that the law had incorporated the recommendations of the Venkataraman panel overseeing professional college admissions, which had decided not to interfere with the 75:25 seat-sharing ratio. Besides, the law had gone by the fee structure fixed by the A.B. Murgod fee fixation committee. The Government had set up the panels on the directions of the Supreme Court and it had only implemented the recommendations. To monitor the case, the Government had sent the former Chief Minister, M. Veerappa Moily (who had pioneered the CET system in the State), and senior education department officials to New Delhi. The Government is also likely to file an interlocutory application on Monday, challenging the recent order of a Division Bench of the Supreme Court allowing NRI/foreign quota within the management quota in two private medical colleges in the State — the M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum.
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