Bengaluru: As per the Supreme Court order, the NEET phase 2 examination will be held on July 24. Results of NEET phase 1 held on May 1 and NEET phase 2 will be announced together on August 17.
The Supreme Court also directed the agencies concerned to complete the medical admission process by September 30. But a few students feel that some vested interests may misuse the time-table for gain by blocking seats in engineering colleges.
Reason: there will be a minimum gap of one month between the engineering and medical admission process. According to the students, all the private engineering colleges will complete their first and second round of seat allotment process by August 17.
But most of the students who secure seats in the top ranked engineering colleges also appear for NEET and if they get a good ranking in the NEET they drop their engineering seats for medical seats.
"As per the consensual agreement signed between the state government and COMEDK colleges, all the merit seats which become vacant after the II round of the seat allotment process, will be considered as management quota seats. As students are not immediately aware of their ranking in NEET, they join the engineering course first. After that there is the possibility of these students vacating their engineering seats. As these seats become management quota seats, colleges can sell them for a hefty amount," said an officer from the higher education department.
"Agents also use the same tactic. First they approach meritorious students who have written both COMEDK UGET and NEET. Once they vacate their engineering seats, they block those seats with the help of college managements," he explained.
Students want the state government to postpone the engineering seat allotment process by both KEA and COMEDK till the completion of at least the first round of NEET counseling. "We will raise the issue at all the public forums," said Sharath Bhat, an engineering seat aspirant.
