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COMED-K counselling to be held from today

Staff Reporter

Consortium makes it mandatory for colleges to get MCI nod

The number of medical seats has come down to 676
Architecture seat selection to be held on August 14

BANGALORE: For the past two weeks, Bangalore has been witnessing an influx of students and parents for the CET-2008 counselling. Starting Tuesday, the city will play host to people from different parts of the country, courtesy the seat selection process for admission into private medical, dental, engineering colleges in Karnataka.

This year, the admission process will see a dip in the number of seats available — 676 seats compared with 820 last year — especially in the medical category. Apart from colleges that got deemed university status, the consortium has decided not allot seats to Ambedkar Medical College, which has not got clearance from the Medical Council of India. “We will not allot seats from colleges which do not submit their respective letters from the MCI,” executive secretary of the Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) S. Kumar told The Hindu. Sri Siddhartha College in Tumkur and JSS College of Medicine in Mysore were recently accorded deemed university status. BLDE Association’s B.M. Patil Medical College in Bijapur, KLE Society’s Belgaum-based Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Sri Devraj Urs University, Kolar have conducted their own nation-wide entrance examination.

With 11,117 engineering seats and 676 medical seats on offer, the COMED-K will start its seat selection process on Tuesday. There are 14 private medical colleges, 28 private dental colleges and 113 private engineering colleges in the State.

The first round of medical and dental counselling will begin at the NMKRV College in Jayanagar.

The first round of medical and dental seats will be covered in the first three days, followed by 15 days of engineering seat selection. The architecture seat selection procedure will be held on August 14. Since about 10 medical colleges were not included in the Karnataka Examination Authority’s counselling procedure, the consortium’s seat selection is likely to be affected. Students who take provisional seats in private colleges may shift to government colleges where the fees is subsidised thus making it difficult for private colleges.

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