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Moves afoot to evolve formula for admissions

By Our Special Correspondent

Hyderabad May 10. A serious effort is on at the Government, university and directorate levels for evolving a formula governing admissions and fee structure in private medical and dental colleges in the State with a view to doing justice to SCs and STs who are socially backward and other weaker sections which are economically not sound.

The Health Minister, Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, at the instance of the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has asked this category of colleges to come out with a formula within a fortnight to be made applicable to 2003 batch students onwards. He said private colleges gained more number of seats under the "management quota'' due to the recent Supreme Court judgment but they could afford to surrender a few of them to the Government.

He said here today that the Government was contemplating having a "fair quantum of seats'' in private medical/dental colleges for fulfilling the aforesaid social objective. The Minister's initiative followed two rounds of talks with private managements for achieving an understanding with them. The first meeting was chaired by himself in Hyderabad and the second was held at NTR University of Health Sciences at Vijayawada attended by top officials of the department, including the Principal Secretary, M. Chaya Ratan, and its Vice-Chancellor, G. Shyamsundar.

According to the Director for Medical Education, G. Srinath, the Medical Council of India and the Dental Council of India have fixed cut off dates for admissions and for completing the process by July-end.

There are 1,250 MBBS seats in 11 private medical colleges and 920 dental seats in an equal number of dental colleges. The Government, on the other hand, has 1,450 MBBS seats and only 80 dental seats in its colleges.

Dr. Sivaprasada Rao said in view of the long queue of students from the State and non-existence of any scope for them to get the same from the "all-India pool,'' there was need for private medical/ dental colleges to make available sizeable quantum of seats for the students belonging to the State. The Minister said the Private Management Trust of Medical and Dental Colleges representing private medical/dental colleges, at the two rounds of meetings so far, was committed to an amicable formula of seat-sharing and fee structure for EAMCET rank-holders.

The State Government has shown data from various States, including Maharashtra and Gujarat, to justify its plea for more seats.

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