The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : 220 attend counselling

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Tuesday, Jul 11, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

220 attend counselling

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Only 220 of the 750 registered candidates turned up on the first day of the MBBS seat selection process conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) at the NMKRV College here on Monday. Six cases of forgery were detected.

Six candidates were turned back from the counselling centre after they failed the biometric identification test. "The fingerprints of the candidates who took the Under Graduate Entrance Test (UGET) and the fingerprints of those who came to the counselling did not matchThe pictures were also grossly mismatched. When confronted, they confessed in writing about the mismatch," COMED-K Executive Secretary S. Kumar told The Hindu.

Besides these cases, the counselling process was peaceful and as per schedule. "The low turnout was because many candidates had chosen seats through the CET. From Tuesday, we expect more students for the counselling," he said. COMED-K rank holders from 751 to 2,000 could select the available MBBS seats on Tuesday.

At the end of first day, 436 MBBS seats remained unfilled. Of these, 40 seats were available in KSHMA, Mangalore; 40 in FMIMER, Mangalore; 12 in Dr. AMC Bangalore; 28 in AIMS, Bellur; 45 in BLDEAMC, Bijapur; 0 in JSSMC, Mysore; 30 in MRMC, Gulbarga; 14 in JJMMC, Davangere; 45 in SSIMS, Davangere; 39 in SSMC, Tumkur; 43 in DUMC, Kolar; 30 in KVGMC, Sullia; 0 in KIMS Bangalore and MSRMC Bangalore and 30 in SNMC, Bagalkot.

Students had come from different parts of the country for counselling. Among them was Supriya Verma, a student from Uttar Pradesh. She said, "The fee for medical and dental is high, but I do not mind paying the amount as my future is important to me. Another student, Ayesha, from Tamil Nadu, said as long as she could get a medical or dental seat, she did not mind the fee charged.

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