BANGALORE: The Justice Venkataraman Committee has said that the admission process to post-graduate courses in private professional colleges conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) is satisfactory and so is the 50 per cent reservation of seats provided by it.

The committee, which oversees admission of candidates in private professional colleges in the State, has in its report given a clean chit to COMED-K on the issue. It had gone into the issue of post-graduate admissions in private professional colleges after some students complained that COMED-K had provided for excess reservation, leaving only a few seats in the general category.

Several students had approached the committee following a recent Supreme Court directive. The court, while permitting the private managements to go ahead with counselling, had said that any student aggrieved by any decision pertaining to admission, could approach the committee.

The committee, which went into the issue termed as satisfactory the admissions to the post-graduate courses and said no fault could be ascribed to COMED-K. It said the 50 per cent reservation of seats in post-graduate courses could not be labelled as bad in law. Moreover, in view of the amendment to the Education Bill (by the State Government) and the existing law, it was right on part of the managements of private institutions to have reserved 50 per cent of their seats.

It said all the steps (on the issue of reserving the post-graduate seats) had been taken as per the law and that the admissions were merit-based where counselling for post-graduate seats were concerned.

Displeasure

The committee expressed displeasure on complaints received by it alleging that student had produced fake caste certificates to benefit from reservation.

Madhusudhan R. Naik, who argued for COMED-K, told the committee that the consortium could not go into the issue as only a specialised agency could investigate it.

The committee took Mr. Naik's submission on record and observed that the issue of fake caste certificates would have to be investigated by a competent authority. It said any student found guilty of furnishing false caste certificate would have to be dealt with severely.

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