Bengaluru, Mar 25: In a good news for Non-Resident Indians who want to pursue higher studies in Karnataka, the government has enhanced NRI and management quotas for medical and dental seats in minority colleges by 5%.
With this, the management and NRI quotas for postgraduate seats in minority colleges stand at 25%. This means that now 55% of the seats will be filled through examinations conducted by minority colleges’ association instead of 60%.
Even though the move is beneficiary for colleges and NRIs, it could affect the chances of other students aspiring for medical and dental seats in minority colleges.
“This is bad news for us as the NRI and management quota seats are of higher fees and are not accessible to non-NRI students,” said Shilpa G., a medical seat aspirant.
As per latest rules, all educational institutions will now have to reserve 30% seats for Karnataka students. This is in addition to government-quota seats that are already being given by unaided and minority institutions.
Meanwhile, Medical Education Minister Sharanprakash R. Patil said he had held a meeting with representatives of several deemed universities and urged them to give 25% of medical and dental seats to the government-quota pool under the consensual agreement.
“They said they would have a meeting, and come back for another round of meeting with the State government,” he said.
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