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Eight medical colleges allowed to increase number of seats

BANGALORE: The Cabinet subcommittee on professional education on Tuesday cleared a proposal to add 100 seats at the graduate level in two medical colleges and 60 seats at the postgraduate level in six medical colleges from the next academic year.

The subcommittee, which is headed by Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, also granted permission for the setting up of a private medical college in Shimoga and a private engineering college in Bangalore.

Briefing presspersons after a meeting of the subcommittee, Medical Education Minister V.S. Acharya said the Government has to now recommend to the Medical Council of India (MCI) to allow the intake in the two medical colleges to be increased.

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences had made such a recommendation to the subcommittee. The subcommittee approved the recommendation on Tuesday and decided to recommend to the Government to forward this to the MCI.

At the undergraduate level, the subcommittee sanctioned an increase in intake in the Kasturba Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli, and Vydehi Medical College, Bangalore, from the present 100 to 150 seats each, Dr. Acharya said.

At the postgraduate level, the subcommittee approved a proposal to increase the intake in six medical colleges by 60 seats. Of these, 24 seats would come under the government quota, he said.

The new medical college and engineering college cleared by the subcommittee are Subbaiah Medical College and Maruthi Seva Samithi Engineering College.

The subcommittee also cleared an increase in the number of seats in several pharmacy and nursing colleges.

Dr. Acharya said the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell would hold a counselling session on September 7 for the nine vacant medical seats and four dental seats among the 167 seats that come under the Karnataka quota in the all-India medical seats category.

Mr. Yediyurappa noted that the recent increase in the salaries of teaching staff in government medical colleges would result in an additional burden of about Rs. 4 crore a month. The amount would be included in the supplementary estimates of the State Budget, he said.

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