Pvt colleges say no to common counselling for medical seats

Private, deemed and minority medical colleges have refused to follow the central government’s notice directing state governments to conduct common counselling for the available medical and dental seats in the state.

Instead, four separate rounds of counselling will be held for the students who have emerged successful in the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) 2016.
 A notice issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare states that if possible, states should have a combined counselling for admission to medical and dental college seats.

Common counselling
Accordingly, Karnataka Minister for Medical Education, Dr Sharan Prakash Patil held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss about the possibility of holding a common counselling. However, the representatives of private, deemed and minority medical institutions objected to the proposal.

“We have already given 40% seats in our institutions to the government. If the government is going to conduct the counselling too, why should we even run the institutions,”  the representatives sought to know. The colleges want to conduct the counselling themselves.

CBSE will be conducting the counselling for the seats under the All-India quota. Private medical college seats will be filled through COMED-K and deemed and minority colleges will have separate counselling.

Transparency in councelling
Patil added that the government would ensure transparency in the counselling and fee collection at these institutions.“Reservations will not be applicable in the counselling for admission to private medical and dental colleges in the state “ said A S Srikanth, Chief Executive Officer, COMED-K.

Private colleges have already given 40% of available seats to the government. Of the remaining seats, 40% are in the general category and will be given to NEET merit students and 20% seats are for the management quota.

Applications for counselling are available online. Students in any part of the country who have got a merit rank in NEET may apply.
DH News Service