RGUHS moots Rs 25L fine for giving up seat to counter seat blocking
TNN | Jan 25, 2020, 04.26 AM IST
Bengaluru: To put an end to the seat-blocking scam in medical colleges, the government is thinking of increasing penalty for candidates who reserve seats only to surrender them after the mop-up round.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences submitted a report to the medical education department recently, recommending the existing rules be changed.
“We want to bring in a rule that no seat can be surrendered after the mop-up round,” said Dr CN Ashwath Narayan, deputy chief minister and minister for medical education. The minister said he will place the report before the cabinet for approval.
Seats surrendered after the mop-up round are transferred to the management quota and sold at high prices. Penalty would be exempted in certain cases when the candidate would surrender a seat even after the mop-up round in case s/he got a seat in a better medical college.
However, the provision was misused by some candidates and colleges, leading to the infamous seat-blocking scam. The RGUHS report said students must be discouraged from surrendering seats and the penalty be increased to Rs 25 lakh from the existing Rs 5 lakh. Further, no medical college should admit a student after the cutoff date to avoid misuse.
TNN | Jan 25, 2020, 04.26 AM IST
Bengaluru: To put an end to the seat-blocking scam in medical colleges, the government is thinking of increasing penalty for candidates who reserve seats only to surrender them after the mop-up round.
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences submitted a report to the medical education department recently, recommending the existing rules be changed.
“We want to bring in a rule that no seat can be surrendered after the mop-up round,” said Dr CN Ashwath Narayan, deputy chief minister and minister for medical education. The minister said he will place the report before the cabinet for approval.
Seats surrendered after the mop-up round are transferred to the management quota and sold at high prices. Penalty would be exempted in certain cases when the candidate would surrender a seat even after the mop-up round in case s/he got a seat in a better medical college.
However, the provision was misused by some candidates and colleges, leading to the infamous seat-blocking scam. The RGUHS report said students must be discouraged from surrendering seats and the penalty be increased to Rs 25 lakh from the existing Rs 5 lakh. Further, no medical college should admit a student after the cutoff date to avoid misuse.
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