Bengaluru: Hundreds of students, who have scored 300/300 in Physics, Chemistry and Biology and bagged a CET medical ranking of between 1,900 and 250 are planning to wait for a year and re-appear for the test or NEET.
Reason? Despite their high marks they are not sure of securing an MBBS seat in the government quota thanks to the decision of COMED-K to do away with it in its affiliated colleges this year and fill all the seats (except the 15% NRI quota) through NEET.
Recalling that last year around 800 seats in the private medical colleges were earmarked for CET students, the toppers say this was of big help to the poorer students, who cannot afford their fee otherwise.
“The annual fee for non -government quota seats in private medical colleges is around Rs. 4 lakh a year. Poor students cannot afford this. If there are no government quota seats in private colleges this year, it will be a huge setback,” says a CET topper, Chaithanya Kumar K. He is hoping the government will persuade private colleges to surrender 40% of their seats to it like last year.
Sources in the state medical education department say this is not impossible and the problem could be solved soon. “Private colleges are demanding implementation of the 2006 Admissions Act. We will hold another round of talks with them by the end of this week to sort out the issue,’ said an officer of the department.
“It is not possible for any college to follow the admission guidelines prescribed in the state. So, they must fall in line. Adding to it, all the private medical colleges in the state benefit from various government schemes,” added a senior officer.
