Admissions Over, But Nursing Seats Still Sell for Rs 2.5L?

Published: 21st November 2014 

BENGALURU: Students can get a BSc Nursing seat even after the last date of admission, provided they are ready to cought up as much as `2.5 lakh.

Though the last date for admissions to BSc nursing courses for the academic year 2014-15 was November 15, some agents reportedly working for colleges are helping students get admissions if they are ready pay anywhere in the range of `2.5 lakh, one of the agents, who claims to have contacts in colleges and the university, claimed.

Following information received from a few students who said that they were approached by agents, Express spoke to an agent, who identified himself as Nideesh.

He claimed that he could get the students a seat and also gave them an option of three colleges. “I will give them three options to choose from — Nightingale Institute of Nursing at Magadi Road, Jayanna College of Nursing and Koshy’s College of Nursing, Hennur,” he claimed.

When asked about the fee for the course, he said, “The fee is `2.5 lakh. You need not worry about the admissions, you can come with me, we will get the application form and submit it tomorrow.”

He also assured there will not be any problems with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) for approval of the admission.

When Express called Jayakathambari C A, the principal of Nightingale Institute of Nursing, posing as a student, to cross-check the claims, she said, “You come and meet me tomorrow along with original II PUC documents.”

There are over 300 nursing colleges affiliated to RGUHS offering nursing courses.

They offer BSc Nursing (four years), Post Basic BSc Nursing (two years) and MSc Nursing courses. The fee fixed by the government for the BSc Nursing is `6,500 for government quota seats. For management seats, colleges have fixed the fee between `30,000 and `70,000. However, the seats are selling for `2.5 lakh in the black market.

According to the principal of one of the top nursing colleges in the city run by a prime hospital, there is a racket where agents sell nursing seats.

“As the number of admissions of Karnataka students is less, even the government quota seats are vacant most of the times. This helps the agents work with managements,” he said.

RGUHS Registrar Dr D Prem Kumar said, “The university has closed admissions. We request parents and students not to get cheated by such agents.”