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CET compulsory for dental, ayush courses this year

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: Aspirants of dental and ayush (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, sidda and homoeopathy) courses will have to appear for the Common Entrance Test 2009 after all.

A decision to this effect was taken by Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Minister for Medical Education Ramachandra Gowda on Friday.

Mr. Gowda told presspersons that the Government did not have enough time to amend certain provisions under Karnataka Selection of Candidates for admission to Government seats in Professional Educational Institutional Rules 2006 .

The State Government issued an order on March 5 stating that students seeking admissions to dental and Ayush courses need not appear for CET. It said that the admission procedure would not come under the ambit of the entrance-based allotment process conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority. However, as per the existing rules, CET is mandatory for admission to professional courses.

“Before we could amend the rules and regulations, the model code of conduct came into force. We decided to follow the existing system and conduct CET for all courses. The proposal to amend the rules has been forwarded to the Law Department.”

The Law Department would amend the rules, which would be implemented during CET 2010. “We took this decision, as we did not want the students to be in a quandary over admissions. The issue will be discussed in the Legislative Assembly,” he added.

The Minister said that after CET counselling, if any seats remained vacant, the Government would empower the institutions to fill the seats on a first-come-first-served basis based on the eligibility criteria. Students were required to have at least 50 per cent aggregate in the qualifying examination (second Pre-University Course/ 12th standard) to be eligible for admission. The institutions will be forced to offer the seats at the reduced government quota fees.

“We are, however, certain that there will be no CET for dental and ayush courses from next year,” he added.

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