Provisional seat matrix notified

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, JUNE 2. The State Government has notified the provisional seat matrix in the first year MBBS and first year BDS courses for the academic year 2001-2002.

The notification of the provisional seat matrix is applicable to Government and private medical and dental colleges.

Any person or institution aggrieved by the seat matrix now fixed may file objection within 15 days from the date of the notification (June 1), and the Government shall, after considering the objections, notify the final seat matrix.

The objections, if any, should be filed with all documents to the Secretary to Government, Medical Education Department, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Veedhi, Bangalore-560 001.

According to the notification, the Father Muller's Medical College, Mangalore, and the Khaja Banda Nawaz Institute of Medical Sciences, Gulbarga, are not permitted to admit students for the academic year 2001-2002 as per the directions of the Medical Council of India.

In the case of the Rajiv Gandhi Dental College, Bangalore, nine seats under management quota have been reduced as per the undertaking executed before the Karnataka High Court, and they have been re-allocated in the Government free, Karnataka payment and non-Karnataka categories.

The notification further says that the management of the Yenapoya Dental College, Mangalore, has executed an undertaking to surrender seats at the rate of 25 per cent per year from the management quota from the academic year 2001-2002 for making 10 excess admissions during 1994-95 and 40 excess admissions during 1995-96. Accordingly, 13 seats have been reduced under the management quota in 2001-2002.

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