The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Accord reached on medical, dental college seats

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Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Accord reached on medical, dental college seats

Special Correspondent

40 p.c. government quota seats in private medical colleges, 35 p.c. in dental colleges

BANGALORE: After weeks of hard bargaining on sharing seats in private professional colleges, the State Government and the managements of private professional colleges on Thursday agreed on a 40:60 seat-sharing ratio for admission to the MBBS course and a 35:65 ratio for admission to the BDS course for 2007-08.

The Government and the private colleges shared seats equally in the current academic year. It was only recently that the Government entered into a 45:55 seat-sharing formula with private engineering colleges.

Fee

Minister for Higher Education D.H. Shankaramurthy and Minister for Medical Education V.S. Acharya told presspersons here that 40 per cent of medical seats, now in the government quota, would be available at a subsidised annual fee of Rs. 35,000. The number of such seats, termed "free seats," will go up to 2,250 this year from 1,729 last year, provided that the Medical Council of India permits the admission of 100 students each in the three new government medical colleges in Shimoga, Bidar and Raichur.

For the 60 per cent management quota seats, a maximum annual fee of Rs. 3.25 lakh (Rs. 2.90 lakh last year) has been fixed for 40 per cent of the seats. This is not applicable to the 15 per cent NRI quota seats and the five per cent discretionary quota seats.

Mr. Shankaramurthy and Dr. Acharya said the annual fee for the dental course had been fixed at Rs. 25,000 for the 35 per cent seats under the government quota. The total number of seats, both government and private, was 1,046.

Under the 65 per cent management quota, a maximum annual fee of Rs. 2.30 lakh has been fixed for 45 per cent of seats. The limit will not apply to the 15 per cent NRI quota seats and five per cent discretionary quota seats. There are 28 private dental colleges and one government college. As many as 832 seats under the government quota remained vacant last year.

Minority colleges

The Government also held a meeting with the Karnataka Linguistic and Religious Minority Institutions and agreed on a 25:75 seat-sharing ratio for both medical and dental courses. The annual fee has been fixed at Rs. 35,000 for each medical seat under the government quota and Rs. 3.25 lakh for each seat under the management quota. The percentage of seats and fee under the NRI and discretionary quotas will be fixed soon.

For the BDS course, the fee for government quota seats is Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 2.30 lakh for management quota seats.

The linguistic and religious minority institutions will offer 800 medical and 520 dental seats. The institutions are to yet decide on the date of the entrance test.

Entrance tests

The Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell will conduct and entrance test to fill government quota seats on May 9 and the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) will hold its entrance test on May 6.

Only students from Karnataka are eligible for the CET. Students from all over the country can take the COMED-K entrance test.

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