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Tuesday, Sep 28, 2004

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Offer surrendered seats to students, medical colleges told

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, SEPT. 27. Even as private medical college managements strongly refuted the charge of multiple admissions, the S. Venkataraman panel overseeing professional college admissions today asked the colleges not to fill vacancies arising out of surrendered seats without giving an opportunity to students with merit.

To find whether a student had got admitted to one or more medical colleges by paying the prescribed fee, the panel has directed seven medical colleges to furnish details on "whether the college has obtained the original certificates from the selected candidates, and if not, under what circumstances they admitted the candidates without production of the original documents."

The panel also wanted the colleges to intimate the candidates on the waiting list about the vacancies arising out of surrendered seats. If there was no waiting list, the colleges should invite the other students, who had applied but were not offered seats, to take a chance against the casual vacancies that may arise on or before September 30.

Incidentally, September 30 is the last date fixed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) to complete all medical college admissions. "The colleges have also been informed that if admissions are made at the last moment to the casual vacancies without intimating the candidate merit-wise, such admissions may not be approved," the Medical Education Secretary, D.V. Prasad, said.

Perusing the management quota admission list submitted by private non-minority medical colleges, the Venkataraman panel had found that the same candidates were admitted to more than college. The committee wondered how this was done as "it is necessary that candidates should have produced the original documents."

Charges denied

Refuting allegations of multiple admissions in medical colleges, the chairman of the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK), R.L. Jalappa, said the students had applied in different colleges, and the institutions could not prevent them. "I don't understand the manipulation that is being alleged."

He said if students approached more than one college for admission and took back the original documents without indicating that they had taken admission elsewhere, "the colleges cannot be faulted."

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) and the CET Cell Special Officer had asked the colleges to return all original documents to the candidates.

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