The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Formula ready for professional college admissions

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Friday, Jun 30, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Formula ready for professional college admissions

Staff Reporter

It is a guide map of seat matrix, fee structure

BANGALORE: With the tabling of the new educational Bill in the Assembly, the consensual arrangement worked out by the Government and private professional college managements for admissions this year has virtually come into force. The arrangement is a detailed guide map of seat matrix, fee structure, admissions and scholarships.

Here is what it means for the students.

Sharing of seats for counselling of reserved category: All the candidates who took the Under Graduate Entrance Test (UGET) of the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) and who belong to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes with their respective assigned ranks in the COMED-K test and all the assigned seats reserved for them, now stand transferred to the CET Cell for counselling. The seat selection process will be carried out with reference to the merit as determined by the ranking assigned in the COMED-K test.

In the first instance, the CET Cell will counsel and allot the available and reserved seats in government and aided institutions to candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes based on the ranking assigned by the CET Cell.

The CET Cell will thereafter counsel and allot the seats to the COMED-K test applicants in the order of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes to all transferred seats out of those reserved by applying the roaster for the said categories. This will be based on the ranking assigned by COMED-K.

If any transferred seats remained unfilled at the final round of the counselling by the CET Cell, all such seats would be reverted to COMED-K for its appropriate counselling or for getting filled up by the respective colleges.

Scholarships

The private colleges have resolved to extend scholarship to socially and economically weaker sections and participate in social welfare measures of the Government.

Counselling

The CET Cell will hold counselling for reserved category seats in the COMED-K colleges while the seat selection for general merit category will be done by COMED-K. There will only be two rounds of counselling by COMED-K after the CET counselling. For unfilled seats both the CET and COMED-K would conduct counselling. On such seats becoming available, colleges would call for applications.

Grant of admissions

All the colleges will grant admissions on receipt of allotment letters by the counselling authorities. Joining time of seven days would be given and payment of tuition fee by all categories would be a precondition for admission.

Seat matrix and fee

Category A (reserved category): medical and dental — 35 per cent of total intake. Fees: Rs. 35,000 for medical and Rs. 25,000 for dental. Engineering — 40 per cent of total intake. Fees: Rs. 15,000

Category B (general merit category): medical and dental — 15 per cent of the total intake. Fees: Rs. 2.90 lakh for medical and Rs. 2.30 lakh for dental.

Engineering — 20 per cent of total intake. Fees: Rs. 85,000.

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