Karnataka govt announces strict action for benefitting from medical seat surrender

Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said that strict action will be taken against the private medical colleges benefitting from the surrender of medical seats.

While responding to allegations that private medical colleges in the state are benefitting due to the surrendering of medical seats, Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said that heavy penalty will be imposed and strict action will be taken against the college in case they are found to be benefitting from the surrender of medical seats.

“We will introduce heavy penalty in case of surrender of seats so that the problem does not continue in the coming years,” said Sudhakar.

BJP member N. Ravikumar in the Legislative Council pointed out that a few private medical colleges were benefitting from the surrender of medical seats due to a loophole in the law. He also said that in the academic session 2019-20 and 2020-21, as many as 1,227 seats were surrendered.

Ravikumar also highlighted the huge level of competition the medical aspirants face to get a medical seat. He said more than 1.19 lakh students took the entrance examination for medical seats in Karnataka and out of them only 89,539 were eligible to get the medical seats. Out of these 33,650 attended the interview, and finally, only 8,535 students got the Karnataka medical seats.

“When such is the competition to get medical seats, how come people surrender seats? It is a mafia involving some colleges and students. The colleges inform about the surrender of the seats only at the last hour of the counselling, so that nobody can take them. The government should conduct another round of counselling to fill all the seats,” he said, as reported by The Hindu.

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