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Medical admission process starts CET SCAN

Staff Reporter

Counselling for candidates also being held in Hubli and Gulbarga this year for the first time

— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Choosing seats: Parents and students at the counselling session at the CET Cell in Bangalore on Thursday.

BANGALORE: Scores of students and parents, waiting anxiously for the medical and dental seat allotment process to begin, had to wait an extra hour-and-a-half for the counselling rounds to begin. With two Ministers, an MLA and the recently elected MP from Bangalore delivering lectures, the process commenced late only to be delayed further by “teething troubles” in the parallel counselling process.

Seat allotment for the first 1,900 ranks got under way here on Thursday. However, the daylong process was marred by periodic delays, student and parents said. Officials in the Karnataka Examinations Authority said that the delays were negligible and that things functioned satisfactorily for the better part of the day.

This is the first time that the counselling is also being conducted in Hubli and Gulbarga, and the KEA expects close to 15,000 students to attend at these two centres. A screen displayed real-time video footage of the process being conducted in all the centres.

Earlier, Higher Education Minister Arvind Limbavali said that the counselling would be extended to Mangalore next year. Further, he said, the Government would work towards a single-window admission process and test for professional admissions. “We have even agreed to grant them five memberships on the KEA Board, and will work towards convincing them,” the Minister said.

Speaking to presspersons after the certificate distribution ceremony, where top rankers were awarded for their merit, Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda mooted the concept of a centralised entrance examination for deemed universities, to regularise admissions, and also making it mandatory for them to give 25 per cent seats to the State. C. Ashwath Narayan, MLA, and recently elected MP for Bangalore North D.B. Chandre Gowda also spoke at the event.

Anish Bhat P., CET medical first-rank-holder from Mangalore, opted for a medical seat in Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore. “It is closest to our house and it is a very good college to study in,” his relative said. While the second- and third-rank-holders chose to give the admission round a miss, fourth-rank-holder Karan N. Ramakrishna chose KMC, Manipal. Akshit Saradagi (10th rank) and Shadab B. Maldar were the first students from Gulbarga and Hubli respectively.

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