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All seats in new Hassan medical college allotted

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Fee is Rs. 16,700 as against Rs. 3 lakh in private colleges

NEW BEGINNING: A student being admitted to the new medical college in Hassan, at the special medical vacancy round arranged by the CET Cell in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

BANGALORE: With the approval of a new government medical college in Hassan, medical seat aspirants thronged the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell here to check out their chance of getting one of the 100 MBBS seats on offer, at a fee of Rs. 16,700.

The seat selection process was on till late on Saturday night, at the end of which 57 seats were left vacant in private unaided colleges.

These seats are not likely to be filled as the deadline for admissions expired on Saturday. The CET Cell had arranged a special medical vacancy round to offer the seats to all eligible rank holders of "CET 2006" barring those candidates who had already taken mutual transfers from the Director of Medical Education.

While all the 100 seats in the new medical college were allotted on Saturday, the last General Merit category seat went to the 2,860th medical rank holder. The last seat under the SC-R category was taken by a student who had secured the 11,976th CET rank.

With September 30 being the deadline to complete all professional college admissions, the cell had to fill all the available medical seats on Saturday itself. The 57 higher fee category seats, which were given up by students to claim the lower fee government college seats, were left unfilled.

Students, who had paid a huge sum to get into the private colleges, had arrived early at the CET Cell. But there were some who were not so sure about the new college.

"I do not want to join that government college because it is a new and we do not know the future," said one of them.

Yet, the majority were apparently happy at the sudden turn of events.

The 100 MBBS seats in the government quota had come as a big surprise.

"We are happy that a new government college is being opened, as it provides good equipment and better faculty than the private college," said a parent.

The big difference was in the fee, and that obviously was the reason behind the crowds.

The government college fee was only Rs. 16,700 as against the private college fee in the range of Rs. 3 lakh.

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