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200 More Seats In Medical Colleges
All issues related to seats- sharing and fees for undergraduate professional courses are to be discussed at a meeting chaired by the CM next week.
The State Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for increasing the number of MBBS seats in each of the four medical colleges in the State from 100 to 150. With this, the total intake in the four government medical colleges in the State at Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli and Bellary for the current academic year (2005-06) will increase from 400 to 600.
According to sources, the State government will soon place its proposal before the Medical Council of India (MCI) for approval. The State governments application to start five new medical colleges at Bidar, Mandya, Raichur, Hassan and Belgaum is also pending before the Medical Council of India.
The MCI team is expected to visit the State on May 31 to inspect the infrastructure facilities in these new medical colleges.
The Cabinet also gave its approval for increasing the intake by 29 seats in Yenopaya Medical College, 13 seats in K S Hegde Medical Academy and six seats in various courses in M S Ramaiah Dental PG Dental College, sources added. The Cabinet is also learnt to have ratified the recommendation of the sub-committee on higher education for a 10-fold increase in fees for post-graduate medical and dental courses in government colleges. The sub-committee on higher education had recently recommended the hike in fees for government post-graduate medical and dental courses from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 per annum.
The Cabinet also approved the sub-committees recommendation for a 10-fold hike in fees for para-clinical courses from the present Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000 per annum.
A five-fold increase in fees for pre-clinical courses from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000 per annum has also been approved, the sources said.
High-level meeting
Meanwhile, Chief Minister N Dharam Singh will chair a high-level meeting on June 1 to discuss all issues related to seat sharing and fee structure for undergraduate courses in the States private professional colleges.
The Supreme Court on May 13 had ordered the continuation of last years fees for the coming academic year for engineering courses.
Private professional college managements have indicated that they are willing to arrive at a compromise with the government on seat sharing and fee structure for medical and dental courses.
The CET seat selection process is scheduled to commence from June 14.
Sources: Online Resources