CEE may miss August 30 medical college admission deadline
CEE would find it difficult to make admissions to all government quota seats within the stipulated time.
Thiruvananthapuram: With the Medical Council of India (MCI) fixing a deadline of August 30 as per the Supreme Court-set schedule, the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) would find it difficult to make admissions to all government quota seats within the stipulated time. However, authorities pointed out that some practical difficulties had delayed the admissions.
As per the schedule, the first round of counselling for the all-India MBBS quota should be completed by July 15 followed by the allotments to the State quota by July 24. Moreover, as per the schedule, the first round of counselling should begin from July 16. As a result, the first round of counselling was to be restricted to government medical and dental colleges.
This was because the high court verdict on the fee for self-financing medical colleges was delivered only on July 17. The case was filed by private self-financing colleges challenging the fee fixed by the Fee regulatory commission. As per the second round, the counselling for medical courses in the all-India quota will be held August 1-7 and for the state quota between August 8 and 19.
As per this schedule, State quota allotment could not be held ahead of the second round of counselling for the national quota. CEE M. T. Reju said that all including the self-financing medical and dental colleges would be included in the second round. Moreover, the category wise list for NRI quota in self-financing colleges and minority quota in self-financing colleges with minority status will be published by the CEE.
Admissions to NRI and minority quota can be done only from this list, Mr Reju said. Moreover, the Supreme Court had made it clear that vacant seats after the second round of counselling can be filled in self-financing colleges only by the CEE through spot allotment. This meant that the self-financing colleges could not make admissions to vacant seats on their own. Hence, there was no need for anxiety that the managements would get the right to conduct admissions to them, Mr Reju said.