Thiruvananthapuram: The Supreme Court on Friday granted one week’s time for Kerala to complete medical admissions in the state. The government had sought the time to complete procedures even as the deadline for admissions prescribed by the Medical Council of India ended on September 30 with over 250 seats still vacant in self-financing medical colleges. The state sought the extension of the deadline as the court set a precedent by extending the deadline for Maharashtra in MBBS/BDS admissions till October 7.
The newly sanctioned Sree Gokulam Medical College, Venjaramoodu and Sree Sankara Dental College, Varkala have handed over the vacant seats to government for spot admissions as the deadline for admissions ended on Friday. Christian medical colleges’ federation had also handed over the four vacant seats for the common counselling held on Friday. These four seats under Christian Management Federation were in Malankara Orthodox Syrian Christian Medical College Kolencherry with three merit quota and one community quota seats vacant in that college.
Apart from these seats, 50 seats in Sree Gokulam MCdical college and 25 seats in Sree Sankara Dental College, Varkala were filled through the common allotment process. A total of 15 vacant medical seats in government medical colleges and 24 dental seats in government dental colleges were filled through the common counselling process. These seats had become vacant after the students who were allotted them in all India quota failed to join.
Meanwhile, the agreement between self-financing medical colleges and the government has denied students with higher ranks, who were allotted to self-financing colleges, an opportunity to migrate to government medical colleges which charge a lesser fee. They had to look on while students with lower ranks were admitted to government colleges. Some of the students who have already joined the self financing colleges even protested against the clause in the agreement at the common counselling process venue at the Old auditorium of the Medical College Hospital here.
