600 MBBS Seats Unavailable For Counseling

Hyderabad: Huge disappointment for many students and parents, around 600 MBBS seats in six private medical colleges across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state, which were recently restored by the Supreme Court, may not be available for counseling.

These six medical colleges are unwilling to participate in counseling after the apex court ordered them to offer seats to students at fee structure similar to government medical colleges.

These colleges won’t be able to make any profits if they charge the same fees as government colleges, In order to provide bank guarantees to the Medical Council of India they have to have some percentage of the sets filled by Management quota, the bank guarantee would be several times more than the amount they would earn through fees.

The Supreme Court had recently conditionally restored 300 seats each in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in six private medical colleges, including Telugu Desam MP C. Malla Reddy’s Malla Reddy Institute of Medical Sciences.

A review petition is filed by the college managements in the apex court asking for permission to fill 40 per cent of the seats under management quota, which the Supreme Court refused. The apex court asked the colleges to fill seats under the convenor quota with fees on par with government medical colleges, which is about Rs 15,000 per student per year.

Colleges are unwilling as they will have to deposit a bank guarantee of a maximum Rs 10 crore, which would be far higher than the fees earned through filling 100 seats at Rs 15,000 per seat. The Supreme Court said colleges can make admissions in the interest of the students and also can choose not to do so if they don’t want to. This made the colleges to drop their colleges out of this year’s counseling

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