Over 400 management quota MBBS seats still vacant in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Over 400 undergraduate medical seats under the management quota at private medical colleges in Karnataka remain vacant, with less than two weeks remaining for admissions for the current academic year.
High fees, ranging from Rs 26 lakh to Rs 45 lakh, are believed to be the primary reason students are declining seats under the management quota, according to a report by Deccan Herald. The lowest fee is Rs 26,12,700 at Navodaya Medical College in Raichur and Srinivas Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Mangaluru, while the highest fee is Rs 45,41,500 at Sapthagiri Institute of Medical Sciences in Bengaluru.
The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has announced the schedule for the mop-up round of seat allotment for medical courses, with 596 seats remaining unfilled after the second round. Of these, 453 seats are under the management quota, while 135 are under the private quota. Only seven seats remain available under the affordable government quota in private colleges.
Meanwhile, college managements are optimistic that the remaining seats will be filled in the mop-up round.
“Even last year, around 20 seats were vacant in our college after the second round, but in the mop-up, all the seats were filled. This year too, we are confident of getting admissions for all the available seats,” a management representative of a private medical college in Bengaluru told the publication.
KEA officials have noted that college managements have been instructed not to increase or decrease the fees declared under the management quota after the first round. “Last year, after a few colleges offered seats for a lower fee in the second round in order to fill vacant seats, students who had got seats in the first round by paying the full fees, started approaching the KEA seeking a discount. Considering this, we informed the colleges they cannot change the fee structure mentioned on the KEA website,” H. Prasanna, Executive Director, KEA was quoted as saying by DH.
Prasanna remarked that students who secure a seat but cancel it will be penalised according to KEA regulations and will be barred from participating in any counselling, including All India counselling, for the following academic year.
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Sambhal violence orchestrated by BJP, govt to divert attention from poll rigging: Akhilesh Yadav
Lucknow (PTI): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district over the survey of a mosque was "orchestrated" by the BJP, the government and the administration "to divert attention from electoral malpractice".
Police used tear gas and "minor force" in the face of stone pelting by locals in Sambhal on Sunday as tension escalated during a second survey of the Mughal-era mosque, claimed to be originally the site of an ancient Hindu temple.
Ten people have been detained and a probe was launched into the violence, an official said.
Tension has been brewing in Sambhal over the past few days after the Jama Masjid was surveyed last Tuesday on the orders of a local court following a petition that claimed that a Harihar temple stood at the site.
A day after the Uttar Pradesh bypoll results were declared and the Samajwadi Party managed to win just two seats while the BJP and its ally RLD bagged the other seven, Yadav levelled serious allegations against the police and administration.
"A serious incident occurred in Sambhal. A survey team was deliberately sent in the morning to disrupt discussions about the elections. The intention was to create chaos so that no debate on election issues could happen," the Samajwadi Party chief claimed.
Citing reports, he said several people were injured in the violence in Sambhal and asked when a survey of the mosque was already done, why was a new survey conducted again and "that too in the morning and without preparation?"
"I don't want to go into the legal or procedural aspects, but the other side was not even heard. This was intentionally done to provoke emotions and avoid discussions on election rigging," Yadav said.
"What happened in Sambhal was orchestrated by the BJP, the government and the administration to divert attention from electoral malpractices," the former UP chief minister alleged.
Asserting that in democracy, true victory comes from the people, not the system, he said, "The new democracy created by the BJP ensures that people cannot vote while the system dominates."
He added that whenever an impartial investigation takes place, and the truth comes out through booth recordings and CCTV footage, it will be evident that "voters did not cast their votes and someone else became the voter inside the booth".
Yadav claimed that on the polling day, the police and the administration removed the Samajwadi Party's almost all booth agents and many supporters who wanted to vote.
"If voters were prevented from voting, then who cast the votes? If Samajwadi Party votes didn't reach those booths and our candidate didn't get support, then who voted there? This is a serious issue," he said.
"Additionally, there were two types of slips, -- one with a red mark and another regular slip. We raised this issue on the voting day itself, stating that the administration had created such arrangements, leading to discrimination," Yadav alleged.
The Samajwadi Party's candidate for the Kundarki assembly bypoll Haji Rizwan too has alleged that his supporters were prevented from voting.
The BJP's Ramveer Singh won the bypoll in the Kundarki seat by a margin of over 1.45 lakh votes.
