Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 28: This year, students from the state, who were annually getting about 1,400 seats in private medical and dental colleges in the state under government quota will be deprived of them.

The private medical and dental colleges in the state have decided to fill 85 percent of the seats barring those reserved under non-resident Indians quota, through National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET). This was stated by M R Jayaram, president of Karnataka Union of Professional Educational Institutions, addressing a press conference here. He said as per the ordinance issued by the government, it has been clarified that NEET will not be applicable in respect of government seats, which effectively means that this ordinance will apply to seats in government colleges alone, not to seats in private colleges. He therefore said that the professional educational institutions have decided to fill seats through NEET.

As per information, 40 percent of seats in 12 medical and 24 dental colleges in the state numbering about 1,400 were made available to the students from the state on the basis of common entrance test rankings as per agreement entered into with the government as government quota seats.