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Dental colleges directed to fill vacant seats

BANGALORE: The State Government has asked all dental colleges to provide admission to eligible candidates if they failed to get the seats filled through the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).

Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, Minister for Medical Education Ramachandra Gowda said that many seats in dental colleges could not be filled last year because of lack of interest among candidates, who had written the entrance test, to join the course.

As many as 47 seats remained vacant in Bellary Dental College last year. Private dental colleges had been asked to provide admission to eligible candidates if they did not get students through the KEA.

Candidates have to obtain minimum 50 per cent marks in the relevant subjects in second year pre-university course to seek admission to the course, he said.

The seat-sharing ratio between the government and managements of non-minority colleges in the dental course is 65:35 for 2009-10. The Minister did not favour conducting an entrance test for the dental course from the next academic year (2010-11).

Mr. Gowda said 15 acres of land had been given to Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology (SJIC) to set up its branch on the Mysore Medical College premises. The SJIC would open its branch in September at the college building and operate from there for the time being. Out of the 60 acres granted to the Mysore Medical College, 15 acres would be given to SJIC to set up a separate hospital, he said.

A sum of Rs. 5 crore had been provided to the SJIC in the State budget for 2009-10. The institute’s Hubli branch would be established at the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli. Now, poor patients from north Karnataka come to the hospital in Bangalore for treatment, the Minister said.

The Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology too would establish its branches in Mysore and Hubli, and Rs. 5 crore had been earmarked to the institute in the current fiscal year.

He said kidney dialysis centres would be established in all district hospitals in the State in the next four years of the Bharatiya Janata Party Government.

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