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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Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy booked for extortion, criminal intimidation
Bengaluru, Oct 3: A case has been registered against Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on charges of extortion and criminal intimidation following a complaint by a realtor here, police said on Thursday.
Along with Kumaraswamy, who holds Steel and Heavy Industries portfolio, former MLC of the JD(S) Ramesh Gowda was also booked by the Amruthahalli police in the case.
Vijay Tata, the complainant, alleged that he was the JD(S) social media vice president but had distanced himself from the party as he was focusing on his real estate business.
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However, on August 24, Gowda came home and called Kumaraswamy from his phone. The Minister told him that the party needed Rs 50 crore for the Channapatna by-elections as it has decided to field his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy this time, Tata alleged.
The realtor also claimed that when he expressed his inability to pay, Kumaraswamy allegedly threatened him with dire consequences.
Reacting to the allegation, Kumaraswamy told reporters, “Is this a topic to discuss? Should I answer all this? Should I respond to every other dog on the street?”
