Kerala: NEET may delay admissions again
Chief Minister has convened an all- party meeting on March 20 to discuss the self -financing college issue, sources said.
Thiruvananthapuram: The admission process may get delayed in view of the failure of the state government to start discussions with the self- financing medical college managements. The managements may approach the court against the central government decision to make admissions to all medical and dental colleges, including minority institutions, from the NEET. The quota and fee for various medical courses can be finalised after the meeting with the medical college managements. But there are no major issues with the engineering colleges.
As per the deadline fixed by the Medical Council of India, the rank list for admissions to medical colleges has to be finalised by June 30 and admissions have to be completed before September 30. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has convened an all- party meeting on March 20 to discuss the self -financing college issue, sources said. The draft of the proposed Bill for regulating the self-financing colleges has been prepared by the law department and is awaiting the clearance of the government.
The panel with MG University Vice-Chancellor Babu Sebastian as convenor and Kuncheria P. Isaac (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University), K. C. Nair (Kerala University of Health Sciences) and Muhammed Basheer (Calicut University) as members would also soon submit a report about the anomalies relating to the internal marks in self- financing colleges. Moreover, the government had appointed a commission with Justice K.K. Deneshan as chairman, educationist R.V.G. Menon and former Calicut University vice-chancellor K.K.N. Kurup as members.