Karnataka Examinations Authority to re-allot medical seats to Mangaluru students

BENGALURU: The Karnataka Examinations Authority will on Saturday hold counselling for 150 first-year MBBS students, whose admissions to GR Medical College, Mangaluru, during the academic year 2022-23 were declared illegal by the National Medical Commission, for re-allotment of their seats in other colleges. The move comes close on the heels of the HC directing the DME to complete the exercise of redistribution of seats for the students among other colleges and place the same before it without fail, by way of an affidavit.tnn
Students asked to bring hall tickets, other docus to KEA office today for seat re-allotment | page 7
The seat matrix on re-allotment has been published on the KEA website, S Ramya, ED of KEA, said. Students have been asked to present themselves at the KEA office in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, at 11am and bring with them the hall tickets issued by the KEA in 2022-23, admission documents of GR Medical College, photo ID cards and related documents. In its order, a division bench comprising Justices G Narendar and Vijayakumar A Patil said, "The DME's affidavit shall detail the names of the students, the quota under which he/she shall be admitted, the college to which the students are temporarily transferred for the purpose of the impending examination."
The petitions filed by the college as well as 99 of its first-year MBBS students are coming up on October 3 for further consideration.
Advocate-general Shashikiran Shetty submitted that since the students/petitioners have been admitted to a private college and as the fee structures in government and private colleges are at variance, the students have to be accommodated according to the quota under which they have been admitted and that too in private institutions.
N Khetty, counsel for National Medical Council (NMC), informed the court that they have already issued a communication to the state government authorising the redistribution of the students.
Apart from seeking transfer to any government medical college so as to enable them to continue their studies, Dhatri DS Anvekar and other 98 I year MBBS students have also sought for issuance of registration numbers to appear in the examination scheduled from October 31, 2023, onwards.
Full report: toi.in