Thiruvananthapuram: 350 MBBS general seats in 19 self-financing medical colleges in the state would be transferred to the All – India quota.
The Director of Medical Education (DME) has written to the additional chief secretary of the health department to publish an order regarding this. However, the managements might take the legal recourse if the government decides to give the seats, that are deserved by the students in the state, to candidates from outside.This could even affect this year’s admission process.
The latest move is an aftermath of an interim order that the Supreme Court had issued in 2019 in a plea filed by the self-financing medical college managements association.
Besides the 15% NRI seats, all self-financing colleges have been instructed to assign 15% seats to the entrance exam commissioner to be allotted on All – India basis. The entrance exam commissioner would be allotting these 15% seats for candidates from outside the state.
The DME’s letter says that only a few colleges have obeyed this instruction despite a circular issued by the Kerala University of Health Sciences and requested by the entrance exam commissioner.