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Talks on allotment of seats in colleges fail

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE JAN. 23. A consensus on the allotment of seats in private professional colleges proved elusive even after the second round of talks between the State Government and the managements of private colleges here today.

Even after a marathon meeting, chaired by the Minister for Higher Education, G. Parameshwar, with the private managements to resolve the issue that arose from the Supreme Court's verdict on admission of students to professional colleges run by minorities, and the fee structure, the issue could not be sorted out.

Dr. Parameshwar told presspersons later that he held separate meetings with the managements of engineering, medical, dental, nursing and B.Ed. colleges to get their response on surrendering a certain percentage of seats to the Government as a follow up to the first meeting held on January 9.

While the engineering college managements agreed to surrender 20 per cent of the seats to the Government, there was no such assurance from the medical and B.Ed. college managements. They, however, said they would make an offer if the Government agreed to enhance the fee structure.

The Minister said he had asked the managements to prepare a fee structure scheme, taking into account the cost of running the institutions, to enable the Government to examine the same. He said that the Government would take a final decision by the first or second week of February.

Meanwhile, the high power committee constituted by the Government to go into the question of seat-sharing between the Government and the private managements has recommended a 50:50 formula with 25 per cent merit category, also providing for reservation in the management's seat share of 50 per cent.

Dr. Parameshwar, however, said that it was only a recommendation of the committee and the Government had not taken any decision on it.According to him, the recommendation included reservation for SCs (15 per cent); STs (three per cent); OBCs (29 per cent) and non-SC/ST poor students (three per cent).

The Minister said the committee had also suggested that the managements could fill up the merit quota by a mechanism either evolved by the institutions or through the CET by payment of a nominal fee.

He said the committee had also suggested that the CET be conducted in the third week of May with only one counselling round.

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