To safeguard the interests of meritorious students belonging to poor families, the State Cabinet on Monday decided to continue the consensual agreement with professional private educational institutions for 2015–16 admissions.
It has been decided to amend the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006, to incorporate the consensual agreement in the Act. All these years, the Act had been kept in abeyance to facilitate consensual arrangement with private college managements.
Till now, the government used to enter into an agreement with managements by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court. Sources in the Secretariat said issues related to fee structure would be decided only after talks with college managements by Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande and Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil. On seat matrix, he said 40 p.c. of seats in MBBS would be filled through CET, 40 p.c. through COMEDK and 20 p.c. for NRIs in unaided and non-minority colleges. In engineering, 45 p.c. of seats would be filled through CET, 30 p.c. through COMEDK and 25 p.c. seats reserved for NRIs in unaided and non-minority colleges. In dental, 35 p.c. seats would be allotted through CET, 40 p.c. through COMEDK and 25 p.c. for NRIs in unaided and non-minority colleges.
