Legal action against 3 deemed varsities

Medical education minister SA Ramdas on Friday said that the department is initiating legal action against three deemed universities—Siddharth Medical College, KLE University of Belagavi and BLDEA’s Shri BM Patil Medical College —for not complying with the 25% seat quota for poor meritorious students, selected through Common Entrance Test (CET).

Although several notices have been issued to these universities in this regard, the managements have not bothered to provide details of the seat-sharing matrix to the department.

“On Thursday too, we had a meeting with the officials of these colleges. But they were not forthcoming in providing seats to meritorious students. So, we have decided to take action against them,” the minister said.

“The managements had given in writing that they would allot 25% seats to government quota students,” he said, adding that even after the government writing to the Medical Association of India seeking information on seat allotments, these universities have failed to provide details.

This year, we have decided not to give away even a single vacant seat to private managements. Last year, 42 seats remained vacant, he said.

“We had given clear instructions to the private managements to begin the counselling process after we finish ours,” he said.
Notices have also been sent to Rajarajeshwari Medical College in Bangalore and AJ Shetty Medical College in Mangalore.