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“Conduct of medical colleges worrying”

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PUDUCHERRY: AICC general secretary and chief whip of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha V. Narayanasamy has expressed concern over the hide-and-seek game the managements of private medical colleges in Puducherry were playing in apportioning 50 per cent of the total seats in MBBS courses for government-sponsored students.

In a release here on Friday, he said while private engineering colleges shared seats equally with the government, the medical colleges were “irresponsive”.

The government should issue firm directives to the managements to ensure that 50 per cent of the seats were made available to students under the government quota. The colleges did not go beyond 35 per cent while apportioning seats, he added. Where students did not join under the government quota, the managements compensated for the vacancies by collecting hefty sums of money towards tuition fees.

The functioning of medical colleges, even after having been provided adequate facilities, was worrying. He pointed out that Tamil Nadu had allotted 50 or 65 per cent quota, as the case might be, for government-sponsored candidates in private medical colleges. The Madras High Court had also approved of the government’s decisions.

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