Intake Beyond 50% Mgmt Quota Will Be Cancelled: MCI
Hundreds of students who have taken admission in postgraduation
courses in private medical colleges paying hefty fees face the danger of losing
their seats for no fault of theirs.
Medical Council of India on Thursday 30th June told the Supreme Court that it had
found several private medical colleges admitting students in postgraduation courses
beyond the 50% management quota and encroaching into the state governments share.
This was pure abuse of the process as the management of private medical colleges
could not indulge in profiteering on the seats reserved for meritorious students
clearing the common entrance test conducted by the state government, MCI's counsel
Amarendra Saran told a vacation bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and A. K. Patnaik.
MCI has a right to discharge those students who have been admitted in excess of
the quota and I am making a statement that they will be discharged, Saran said.
He said MCI would discharge students admitted under management quota in excess of
the 50% cap and no one should be permitted to claim equity on the ground that he/she
had completed studies for six months.
The bench recorded that MCI was free to take action against erring private medical
colleges as per its rules and regulations. There are around 13,000 postgraduation
seats which are filled under common entrance test.
While dealing with two petitions filed by Kerala and Karnataka private medical college
associations, the bench expressed its annoyance over the mess in admissions process
created by private medical colleges despite the court earlier fixing dates for completion
of intake of students.
Why do private colleges mess up things every year our experience with
private institutions, particularly medical colleges, is extremely bad, the bench
said.
Courtesy: Times of India
