Troubled students of the controversial Nagpur College of Homeopathy can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. An order of the state government issued earlier this month has assured the students of admissions to other private colleges affiliated with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS). The management of the college has to pay Rs 50,000 per student for the transfers.
The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 percent marks.
KPC Medical College and Hospital in Jadavpur, a private medical college, has issued a notification to conduct its own medical entrance examination for admission to MBBS course flouting the Supreme Court guideline.
The State government on Friday submitted before the Kerala High Court that if the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) backs off from the seat sharing agreement, it would become null and void. Any right or benefit by way of the said agreement will also cease to exist.
The notification for counselling for engineering and pharmacy courses is likely to be pushed further due to delay in fixing the fee structure in private colleges. The Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) which was supposed to decide the fee structure for private colleges by June 12 has not announced a composite fee structure till date. The higher education department officials said notification for counselling will be announced only by next week and counselling likely to begin from June 26.
With the framing of the model guidelines for private self-financing universities and the proposed establishment of law universities in Aurangabad, Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIFT) in Pune and Nagpur, Higher and Technical Education Minister, Rajesh Tope, is betting big on the education scenario in Maharashtra.
All those eligible out of the nearly 1,600 students who applied for the management quota test on May 31 in eight colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) will be allowed to take the re-test being held by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) on June 22.
In about a month's time, MBBS admission counselling dates would be announced but deals worth crores have already been inked between private college authorities and students for management quota seats at a time when the government is mulling introduction of an online application process to bring in transparency.
Under the scheme, private players who invest in setting up medical colleges in three divisions of the state — Devipatan, Basti and Mirzapur — will get capital subsidy up to Rs 20 crore. There are no medical colleges in these three divisions of eastern UP at present.
AIADMK on Friday urged the AINRC-ruled Puducherry government to ensure private medical colleges earmarked 50 per cent of the total seats in MBBS courses for students under government quota.
The raging controversy surrounding admissions of over 456 students undergoing Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course in 11 private colleges has sent the Punjab government as well as the college managements into a real tizzy.
Defying orders of the Admission Supervisory Committee, headed by Justice James, the Kerala Private Medical College Managements’ Association (KPMCMA) has made it clear that it will not conduct an entrance examination on June 22.
In a desperate bid to fill up seats in private engineering colleges, the state government has decided to slash the admission fee, payable at a time by Rs 20,000.
With the number of medical colleges and seats increasing, there aren't enough cadavers for learning clinical techniques. Government colleges still manage to get cadavers, but private colleges are in a fix as they have to request permission and wait for government approval to get a cadaver.
The massive fraud being played on medical students who prepare for the entrance exam of private colleges, thinking them to be genuine, should be stopped
The top Government and Private Medical Colleges in India has been listed out through the results of The Week-Hansa Research conducted in March/April 2013.
What is also surprising is that there are only three private colleges from Chennai — SSN College of Engineering, Meenakshi Sundarajan Engineering College and Sairam Engineering College — ranked in the first 20. At least 60 colleges have a less than 20 per cent pass percentage, which students could avoid. Many of these colleges are around Tirunelveli, Kancheepuram, Kanyakumari, Vellore, Erode, and Villupuram.
India is the only country that authorises, as official policy, the sale of medical seats by private medical colleges, implicitly accepting the principle that the ability to pay, and not merit, is what counts. Further, in the absence of any system of third party certification by way of an entry or, more importantly, an exit exam — which could guarantee the qualities and competencies a doctor must possess before starting to practice — many medical colleges are producing quacks. The tragedy is that we all know about it.
The State Government seems to have finally woke up to the allegations of malpractice during semester examinations in various private engineering colleges and polytechnic institutes. It has now directed the State Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (SCTE & VT) to look into allegations of malpractice and take appropriate measures.