Excess fee row: KIMS admits two students under NRI quota

August 28, 2015 12:00 am | Updated March 29, 2016 05:55 pm IST - Bengaluru:

The Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and the Rajya Vokkaligara Sangha, Bengaluru, have now admitted two of the three students, who were discharged from the MBBS course, as they were admitted “in excess” of total intake in management quota, under the NRI quota.

Following this, the KIMS and the sangha are not required to pay Rs. 1 crore each as compensation to these two students as directed by a single judge of the Karnataka High Court on July 8.

A Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice B.V. Nagarathna accepted a joint memo — filed by the KIMS and sangha, and two students R. Lekhashree, and Sreekar Surapaneni on their admission under NRI quota — during the hearing of the appeals filed by KIMS against the single bench’s direction. However, the Division Bench did not interfere in the single judge’s bench, which had also ordered the Medical Council of India to look into the issue of excess admissions to prevent such practice by medical colleges. Another appeal filed by the college on the single bench’s direction to pay Rs. 1 crore to another student, Vadaanya Venkatesh, is pending for adjudication.

KIMS is not required to pay Rs. 1 core

as compensation

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