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Quota: earmarking of seats “almost finalised”

PUDUCHERRY: Minister for Health E.Valsaraj said on Friday that the issue related to earmarking seats for the government quota by private medical colleges for admissions through the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) had been almost finalised.

He told reporters here that of the six medical institutes in the private sector, only one, Lakshminarayana Institute of Medical Sciences, had not come forward to allot seats to the government quota on the ground that it had become a deemed university.

The other colleges had agreed to part with more seats than what was allotted to the government quota last year. As a result, the total number of seats to be earmarked for the CENTAC quota would increase from the last year’s 311, he said.

Mr. Valsaraj justified the talks held with the medical college managements every year for getting seats allotted to the government quota on the ground that it became necessary in the absence of clear guidelines.

The deemed universities in the medical sector had not been allotting seats for the government quota in Tamil Nadu, he said.

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