Medical course aspirants have one last chance to bag a seat in the coming week, and they have the option of getting the seat at half the price.
Although demand for medical seats was high, the NRI and management quota seats were not taken during the mop up round as they were very expensive. The cost of the tuition fees for management quota seats ranged from ₹22,12,450 to ₹40,12,450 per annum. The tuition fee for the institutional quota was, however, pegged at ₹6,83,100 lakh, and all the seats were taken.
Out of the total 964 medical seats available under the mop up round, 658 belonged to the management quota.
After the mop up round for medical counselling ended on Friday, there were no takers for 471 management quota seats.
M.R. Jayaram, chairman of the Karnataka Professional Colleges Foundation, said, “If the seats are not filled, managements will have to reduce the cost. They will have to look at the market condition and make changes accordingly.”
However, a student, who attended the counselling in the mop up round, said, “If a medical seat was available for around ₹15 lakh per annum in the mop up round, I would have taken the seat. It is unfair to make seats available at a discount now. I have a feeling that these seats are reserved by college managements prior to the counselling. In fact, the seats are priced so high so that nobody takes them and they go back to the colleges.”
According to the Supreme Court, the vacant NRI and management quota seats have to be handed over to the respective institutions with a list of candidates who were not allotted seats, in the order of merit in the ratio of 10 candidates for each vacancy.
