Karnataka insists on 25% government quota seats in deemed medical colleges
The Hindu
As of now, most deemed medical colleges are not offering government quota seats on the ground that they are bound by UGC rules, and not that of the State Government and RGUHS. Therefore, all the seats sanctioned to them were filled as private quota, NRI and management quota seats.
The government of has decided to reserve 25% of the total seats in Under Graduate (UG) and Post Graduate (PG) courses in all the deemed medical colleges in the State as government quota seats as per the rules of the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006.
The Principal Secretary of Medical Education held two meetings with the managements of deemed medical colleges. According to sources, most of the colleges have agreed to give government quota seats.
Karnataka has 70 medical colleges — government and private — including 9 deemed medical colleges, with 12,095 seats for UG courses for the academic year of 2024-25. A total of 1,650 seats are available in deemed medical colleges.
The deemed medical colleges are functioning as per norms laid down by the University Grants Commission (UGC) while all other government and private colleges are under the purview of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).
At present, the seat sharing system is 40% of medical seats is for government quota, 40% for private management quota, 15% under Non Residential Indian (NRI) quota, and 5% for management quota. All private colleges under the RGUHS are offering 40% seats under the government quota.
However, most of the deemed medical colleges were not offering government quota seats. They were refusing to give government quota seats on the ground that they are bound by UGC rules, and not that of the State Government and RGUHS. Therefore, all the seats sanctioned to them were filled as private quota, NRI and management quota seats.
According to the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006 (PGET Rules 2006-24), the deemed medical colleges following the UGC rules must offer 25% of the total seats allotted to their colleges under government quota.
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