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PG medical, dental seats up by 225

Special Correspondent

Centre likely to sanction Regional Paramedical Institute in Bangalore

Most PG medical seats to be filled by
private colleges
New dental college in Mangalore to offer admissions to 40 students

BANGALORE: The Government has sanctioned 225 seats in 25 colleges in the State in view of the increased demand for postgraduate medical and dental seats. The Centre is likely to sanction a Regional Paramedical Institute in Bangalore.

Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Minister for Medical Education Ramachandra Gowda said that the Government had sanctioned 96 postgraduate medical seats in 13 colleges; 129 postgraduate dental seats in 12 colleges; 1,670 postgraduate nursing seats in 130 colleges; 40 nursing seats in Sathya Sai College, Bangalore; 54 postgraduate pharmacy seats in eight colleges; 15 physiotherapy seats in three colleges; and 35 naturopathy seats in Alvas Naturopathy College, Moodbidri, Dakshina Kannada district. All the seats sanctioned will be open for admissions from this academic year. Mr. Gowda said that a new dental college (Srinivas Dental College) had been sanctioned in Mangalore, and it would provide admission to 40 students this academic year.

A new government dental college, which had 40 seats, had been sanctioned in Bellary district, and admissions would commence from this academic year. This was the second government dental college in the State, he said.

DCI nod

The Government Dental College, Bellary, would be attached to the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences. The Dental Council of India had granted permission to admit students after conducting inspections.

The new college would provide students from rural areas access to dental education. There were 39 dental colleges in the State at present, he said.

On postgraduate medical seats, Mr. Gowda said that most of the seats would be filled by private medical colleges ,

There were 10 Government and 25 private medical colleges in the State.

Since six of the government medical colleges had been set up in the past two years, they would not offer postgraduate education, he said.

The State had 355 nursing colleges (four government), 672 nursing schools (10 government), 78 pharmacy colleges, 43 physiotherapy colleges and four naturopathy and yoga sciences colleges, he said.

Medical Education Secretary Shankarlinge Gowda said that the Centre would sanction a Regional Paramedical Institute in Bangalore in a couple of days.

It would come up behind the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.

The institute would be established at an estimated cost of Rs. 75 crore.

If the Centre would clear it this month, students would be admitted to para-medical courses from this academic year on the basis of an entrance test, Mr. Shankarlinge Gowda added.

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