Two deemed medical universities may be issued notices for declining to fill government quota seats in undergraduate courses.
Two deemed medical universities may be issued notices for declining to fill government quota seats in undergraduate courses.
The nine deemed medical universities in the state are expected to part with 25% of seats in undergraduate courses for admission to eligible students who appear for the Common Entrance Test.
The seats are allotted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA). However, the KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, and Siddartha Academy of Higher Education, Tumkur, have declined to provide 25% of their seats in undergraduate courses to eligible CET students.
The KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research had to provide 12 MBBS seats and Siddartha Academy of Higher Education five seats for eligible CET students.
“We will be issuing notices to these two institutions which have declined to provide 25% seats to state government in a couple of days,” medical education minister SA Ramdas confirmed.
Ramdas said the other seven deemed medical universities had given 25% of their seats for admission by KEA.
“We have allotted seats in these seven deemed universities,” he added.
Prabhakar Kore, head of KLE Group of institutions, said, “We provide 25% of our undergraduate seats to North Karnataka students.
This time, by the time the government order was issued, we had completed the admissions. We are ready to give 50% of our seats to state students, but the question is they should be ready to pay the prescribed fee.”
Dr G Parameshwar, founder, Siddartha Academy of Higher Education, said, “There is no question of providing seats because we have not entered into any agreement with the government. Also, the state government never gave us an NOC for getting deemed university status from the central government.”
“When I was the state higher education minister we had made it a policy to not to issue any NOC to for those seeking deemed university status and rejected nine applications. That list included even our institution, but later our institution officials directly approached central officials and got the permission. So, we don’t need to obey the state government rule of providing 25% seats,” said Parameshwar.
He said that if the state government issued his institution any notice, officials concerned would reply to it.
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