The medical and dental college managements said they changed their stand on the agreement because of the decision taken by the state higher education department to issue an ordinance on engineering colleges.
Private medical and dental college managements appear to have decided to go the way of their engineering college counterparts.
They have decided to back out of the consensual pact they had orally agreed upon, on fee structure and seat sharing for undergraduate medical and dental courses.
Talks between the medical education department and and private medical and dental college managements had just concluded.
“However, we have not signed the consensual agreement till now. We had only agreed to the government’s proposal on fee and seat sharing. Now we are thinking of not signing the agreement,” said the head of one of the premier medical institutions in the city.
The medical and dental college managements said they changed their stand on the agreement because of the decision taken by the state higher education department to issue an ordinance on engineering colleges.
“The promulgation of an ordinance will mean that the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of. Fee) Act, 2006 is being invoked and the fee fixation committee (Justice B Padmaraj Committee) report will be implemented,” said the head of a Comed-K member-institution.
“When they are implementing the Padmaraj Committee report on engineering colleges, let them do the same for us too. According to Act 8, the fee fixation committee should be constituted for both engineering and medical courses,” he said.
According to sources in the higher education and medical education departments, the committee has fixed higher fees for premier institutions. Realising the import of this, private medical and dental colleges have decided to go the engineering colleges’ way and seek extension of Padmaraj committee report to them.
MR Jayaram, chairman, Comed-K, said: “We have decided not to go with the government and the sign consensual agreement. But we will provide seats to Karnataka candidates on a priority basis. Let the Padmaraj Committee report be implemented for medical and dental colleges also.”
“We thought of signing consensual agreements together. But the engineering issue has taken many turns. We have no information. We need to discuss the issue with the medical education minister as well as the college managements,” said a medical education department official.
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