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First allotment for MBBS, BDS done

Staff Reporter

Details put up on websites

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations has carried out the first allotment of seats for the MBBS and BDS courses in Government and self-financing colleges in the State. The allotment details were put up at 7 a.m. on Sunday on the websites www.cee.kerala.gov.in and http://cee.kerala.nic.in.

A press note issued here said the students who have received allotments should pay the required fees at the designated branches of Canara Bank on July 24 and 25. Details were available on the websites.

The allotment has been done for 1,304 seats in the two courses. In the MBBS course, 587 seats have been allotted in the State merit category; 24 for the economically backward category (in two colleges); 123 for Ezhava; 109 for Muslim; 69 for Backward Hindu; 27 for Latin Catholic category; 14 for Backward Christian; 109 for Scheduled Castes and one for Scheduled Tribe.

Twenty-six seats in the Scheduled Tribe category have not been allotted for want of eligible candidates.

For BDS, 133 seats have been allotted in the State merit category; 30 for Ezhava; 26 for Muslim; 17 for Backward Hindu; seven for Latin Catholic; three for Backward Christian and 26 for the Scheduled Caste category. No allotment has been done for the Scheduled Tribe category. Eight seats are available under this category for the BDS course. No allotment has been done for `persons with disabilities' and sports categories and for the seats set apart for those displaying excellence in the cultural field.

Allotment has been done to 65 per cent of the seats in private self-financing colleges and at the Pariyaram medical college, and 80 per cent at the Cooperative Medical College, Kochi.

In the private self-financing colleges, 30 per cent of the seats have been allotted under general merit. These include the 12 per cent seats that the managements refused to acknowledge as the economically backward category. However, freeship has been given in 12 per cent of the seats in self-financing colleges.

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