Summary:
Nearly 105 MBBS seats under the management quota in Karnataka are lying vacant for admissions to undergraduate medical seats ending on January 15.
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Nearly 105 MBBS seats under the management quota in Karnataka are lying vacant for admissions to undergraduate medical seats ending on January 15.
Medical education department officials said no seat goes vacant and one or two may remain vacant due to errors in the admission process.
Officials in the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, the umbrella varsity for medical colleges, said there are over 7,500 MBBS seats in the state.
This year, the unfilled seats are as high as 30 in a college in Devanahalli, 22 in an Anekal college, and 14 in a Bidarahalli college.
A new medical college in Bengaluru has 10 seats vacant.
Colleges blame confusion over admission date: VC
The management seats include other quota seats like NRI which were handed over to the managements after they remained unfilled.
RGUHS vice-chancellor Dr S Sacchidanand said private colleges are blaming the confusion over the last date for admission for the seats getting no students.
“The last date was announced as December 31and it was extended to January 15.
Many colleges said they were not informed of this extension.