Medical Education Minister Sharanprakash Patil has said that the land has been identified and societies for the establishment of six new medical colleges have been formed and the detailed estimates for the construction of the buildings, to house three of these colleges, have also been completed. The work to prepare the estimates for the remaining three colleges was going on.
Talking to The Hindu here on Saturday, Dr. Patil said that the identified lands have been transferred to the respective societies of the five new medical colleges at Bagalkot, Haveri, Tumakuru, Chitradurga and Yadgir and the formalities for transferring the land for the new medical college at Chikkaballapur was being completed.
He said that once the remaining detailed estimates were completed, the proposal would be placed before the Finance Department.
He was confident that it would be completed shortly and that the department would give its nod for the construction activities to begin at the earliest.
Dr. Patil said that the linguistic minority institutions running private medical colleges had agreed to honour the consensual agreement and allotted 25 per cent of the seats as government quota.
As per this the seat matrix of all the medical colleges have been published. More than 3,000 medical seats would be allotted to the students as government quota seats this year, which was 400 plus seats more than the last year as government quota.
Dr. Patil said that despite several efforts the deemed varsities struck to their stand of not allotting any seats under the government quota citing the reason that they were governed not by the State laws but by the Central Act of UGC.
“The State government had no power to force the deemed varsities to allot the seats as government quota.”
To another question, Dr. Patil said that the government had withheld 13 seats at Fr. Mullers Medical College from the government quota seats and not included them in the seat matrix to allot them to the 13 students who were originally allotted the seats in the Fr. Mullers Medical College during 2015-16 and could not pursue the medical education due to legal wrangles between the college and the MCI.
