The medical education aspirants who failed to get a seat in previous rounds of counselling have another chance. As per the consensual agreement between government and private medical colleges, the private colleges have surrendered 675 medical and dental graduate seats to the government.
The government would conduct a special couselling to fill 675 government MBBS and BDS seats on July 17 in Bangalore. The session begins at 7 am on the day and would be completed on the same day. About 19 seats are reserved for specially-abled and five for Kashmiri migrants, he said.
In order to provide adequate and better access to students belonging to educationally and socially backward classes of state for admission, the government has appointed a single-member Monitoring Committee to ensure implementation of regulations as entered into in the consensual agreement.
Sudha Rao, former vice-chancellor of Karnataka State Open University will head the panel.
Ramdas said the one-member committee would ensure implementation of fee structure consensually arrived at as in the agreement, proper implementation of regulations and receive complaints with reference to breach of agreement and resolve the disputes and differences, if any.
Ramdas said there was increase in number of government seats after the Medical Council of India (MCI) has approved more seats in few colleges and private institutions surrendered government quota. A few institutes like Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur and KLE Society, Belgaum has written to government that they have filled all seats, including government share and would spare the seats next year.
However, the government cannot spare a single seat. If the college failed to surrender the seats then the institutions have to cough up a penalty of Rs 5 lakh per seat, he said.
Violation
He also disclosed that there was a violation of government rule by linguistic and religious minority institutions to reserve 66 per cent of seats for linguistic and religious minorities of institution.
However, the records suggest there have been few irreigularities. The single-member committee would also probe into the violations and submit a report to the government, the Minister added.
Pharmacy
The centre has approved additional seats for pharmacy colleges taking the total post graduate seats to 1,323 seats in 38 colleges. About 50 per cent of the seats would be reserved for general merit government quota and the rest is for the management quota. The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences would soon announce the seat matrix and counselling date, he stated.