30% dental seats not taken as govt counselling ends
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 11.09.2018
At the end of mopup counselling, 30% of BDS seats, including 35 seats in government quota remained vacant in self-financing dental colleges across the state. The Directorate of Medical Education will hand over 540 vacant seats to managements of private colleges who will be allowed to independently admit students based on NEET 2018 scores.
Last week, the selection committee in charge of admissions called for fresh applications after it exhausted the previous rank lists with 264 seats in government quota and more than 600 seats in management quota vacant at the end of four days of counselling. College managements also reduced fees from ₹6 lakh to ₹2 lakh. Yet, many did not turn up for counselling on Monday. A total of 318 candidates came for seats in government quota, 65 for management quota. “We allotted seats for 237 seats under government quota and 64 under management quota,” said selection committee secretary Dr N Selvarajan.
Many students are not interested in dentistry as prospects are not lucrative, said senior dentist Dr S M Balaji, state nominee to the Dental Council of India. Students who did not make it to MBBS said they would take a break and write NEET next year.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 11.09.2018
At the end of mopup counselling, 30% of BDS seats, including 35 seats in government quota remained vacant in self-financing dental colleges across the state. The Directorate of Medical Education will hand over 540 vacant seats to managements of private colleges who will be allowed to independently admit students based on NEET 2018 scores.
Last week, the selection committee in charge of admissions called for fresh applications after it exhausted the previous rank lists with 264 seats in government quota and more than 600 seats in management quota vacant at the end of four days of counselling. College managements also reduced fees from ₹6 lakh to ₹2 lakh. Yet, many did not turn up for counselling on Monday. A total of 318 candidates came for seats in government quota, 65 for management quota. “We allotted seats for 237 seats under government quota and 64 under management quota,” said selection committee secretary Dr N Selvarajan.
Many students are not interested in dentistry as prospects are not lucrative, said senior dentist Dr S M Balaji, state nominee to the Dental Council of India. Students who did not make it to MBBS said they would take a break and write NEET next year.
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