The Medical Education Department on Wednesday night decided to postpone the ongoing seat allotment process for all medical and dental seats as the Karnataka High Court, in the afternoon, directed the authorities to admit students belonging to Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) category to institutional seats.
With this, all students will now get an opportunity to redo their option entry.
V. Manjula, Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education Department, said the publication of results of the first round will now be on July 29. She said all candidates will also be given the opportunity to change their options till 7 p.m. on July 28.
A total of 8,698 seats — 6,390 medical and 2,308 dental seats — were to be allotted using the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) ranks through the common counselling process, which was scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
As many as 36,591 students from Karnataka and 20,071 from outside the State are vying for seats.
According to the calendar of events, the first round of allotment of seats for medical and dental colleges was to be announced on Wednesday afternoon by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).
