The State will now have to swiftly evolve a mechanism to ensure that around 130 seats under the government quota in postgraduate degree and diploma dental courses do not fall into the hands of private college managements.
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday directed the State to evolve a mechanism in this regard so that no injustice is done to meritorious students and these seats are not surrendered to colleges. A Division Bench comprising Justice K.L. Manjunath and Justice Raghvendra S. Chauhan passed the order when it was brought to its notice that only 142 candidates were found eligible for these courses against the 270 seats available under the government quota.
Petitioners N. Anmol and 91 other BDS graduates, who could not get minimum 50 per cent marks in the common entrance test (CET) held of the PG dental courses, pointed out that the remaining nearly 130 seats will go to the managements due to anomalies in the selection criteria. They claimed that fewer students had qualified due to anomalies in the eligibility criteria in the CETs conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and by the National Board of Examinations for PG dental and PG medical courses respectively. While there was negative mark for every wrong answer in the CET for dental courses, there were no negative marks in the medical CET.
Evolve mechanism to prevent government quota seats from falling into the hands of private college managements
