The MBBS admissions this year to the 2,050 government seats in all nine government medical colleges and 14 self-financing medical colleges which had entered into an agreement with the government have been completed.
The BDS admissions to all dental colleges for the academic year 2015-16 too have been completed.
Of the 15 self-financing medical colleges which had been listed in the new academic year’s prospectus, all except one institution has entered into seat-sharing agreements with the government.
Of the 14 institutions which had signed the agreement, the Medical Council of India had refused sanction for six to go ahead with MBBS admissions in the academic year 2015-16. This had led to a delay in the completion of admission procedures.
The admission to the seats in these six medical colleges was possible only during the third phase of allotment, after these institutions managed to secure a favourable High Court ruling. The government had adopted a favourable stance in the case so as to enable admissions to as many students in the rank list as possible.
The government has asked the Admission Supervisory Committee, the James Committee, to closely scrutinise the admission procedures of all six self-financing medical colleges, which went ahead with MBBS admissions independently, claiming minority status. The committee is looking into the issue.
If these institutions have gone against the Supreme Court guidelines in the matter of admissions, based on the claim of minority status, the government will take strict action, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar said in a statement here on Wednesday.
BDS admissions
Admissions to BDS seats in the Kottayam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode government dental colleges, Pariyaram dental college in the cooperative sector and 16 self-financing dental colleges too have been completed. At the Pariyaram dental college, all 60 seats are government seats while the 16 self-financing dental colleges had conceded 50 per cent seats to the government.
The government, through a High Court order, has also managed to conduct admissions to the 50 BDS seats each in the newly set up Thrissur and Alappuzha government dental colleges, which had been refused sanction for admissions earlier by the Dental Council of India.
