Updated on: Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell will soon hold a special round to facilitate selection of seats in medical and ayurveda colleges, Karnataka Minister for Home and Medical Education Dr V S Acharya said today.
While ten seats are available from the Government of India quota in medical colleges, in the wake of approval accorded by All India Central Council of Ayurveda, seats in 21 ayurveda colleges would be filled up, he told reporters.
The Ayurveda council had withheld permission to admit students in these colleges earlier raising questions about infrastructure issues, which has now been sorted out, he said.
The government has convened a meeting of private medical and dental colleges on September 30 to disucss their demand for an upward revision in fee structure for seats they offer to merit students under government quota.
Every private college has to surrender 42 seats out of 100 capacity to the government to which the CET selects students for admission.