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Seat allotment to continue

Thiruvananthapuram: The State government has decided to go ahead with the next phase of allotment of seats in self-financing medical colleges with the fee structure included in the agreement reached between it and the managements of these institutions till the Supreme Court gave its verdict.

In a statement here on Tuesday in the backdrop of the government’s plea before the Supreme Court on the agreement and the fee structure, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy said the fee structure would be changed if necessary on the basis of the Supreme Court verdict. Candidates who gave their options now would be given an opportunity to change them.

The government plea’s will come up for hearing on August 19.

Ms. Sreemathy said the government had signed the agreement with the Self-Financing Medical College Management Association to provide poor students an opportunity to do the MBBS course in 50 per cent of the seats by paying lower fees. The Supreme Court upheld a similar agreement between the Karnataka government and the private managements in that State last year. It was in that backdrop that the Kerala government had come forward to sign a similar agreement.

The Supreme Court had ruled that the private managements could admit students to the management quota through entrance examinations conducted by their associations.

It was based on it that the private managements conducted the entrance examinations last year and this year. The P.A. Mohammed admission supervisory committee had the powers to examine complaints against the conduct of the entrance examinations.

“There is something fishy in the action of certain quarters to move the court even before the results of the entrance examination was published,” she said.

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