Counselling begins today for medical, dental courses

For engineering stream, it will be from July 26 to August 9

The Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) has announced dates for counselling for admissions to undergraduate professional courses in private colleges.

Counselling would be held at NMKRV College, Mangala Mantapa, 3rd Block, Jayanagar, here.

According to a release from the consortium, 9,135 candidates are eligible to attend the first round of counselling for medical and dental courses on Saturday and Sunday to pick from 695 medical and 748 dental seats.

For the engineering stream, 45,185 candidates are eligible to choose from 18,124 seats, the counselling for which would be held from July 26 to August 9.

Total seats

Candidates would choose from 40 per cent of medical, 45 per cent of dental and 30 per cent of engineering seats in 12 medical, 25 dental and 148 engineering private professional institutions in Karnataka under COMEDK.

The counselling would commence every day at 8 a.m. and there would be a separate ‘latecomers’ session’. Candidates must be physically present. Original certificates, along with a set of attested photocopies, must be furnished at the time of counselling.

The annual tuition fee payable at the time of counselling, according to the release, is Rs. 3,57,500 for medical, Rs. 2,53,000 for dental and Rs. 50,000 for engineering .

Essential documents

Students had been asked to bring the COMEDK UGET-2012 rank card, Class 10/SSLC record indicating the date of birth, Class 12/II PU marks card, and a demand draft for the tuition fee to be drawn only from nationalised banks.