Management quota at govt colleges?

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Management quota at govt colleges?

PIL Contends 677 Seats Were Wrongly Allotted To Rich Pupils

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:23.12.2020

The Gujarat high court has been moved with a complaint about wrongful allocation of as many as 677 MBBS seats at government and aided medical colleges to rich students in ‘management quota’.

Last week, advocate K R Koshti made a representation to the government to stop the practice of allocating 677 MBBS seats in the management quota in violation of laws formulated for medical admissions. On Monday, he filed a PIL in this regard in the high court to end this practice and accommodate students on these “government” seats by charging reasonable fees.

He is also seeking re-allocation of these seats during the admission process being undertaken by the admissions committee.

Koshti submitted that there are 5,508 medical seats available in Gujarat in the state’s quota. Of these, there are only 700 seats at unaided colleges and 175 seats are available in the management quotas of the concerned trusts.

The advocate claimed that there are six government colleges, eight GMERS colleges, three municipal corporation-run colleges and eight aided colleges in the state.

All these 25 colleges are termed government colleges and all seats available in these colleges should be treated as government seats and there cannot be any allocation for management quota.

But the admission committee has allocated 677 seats to the management and NRI quotas. The law makes it very clear that management and NRI quotas are available at unaided colleges only.

Koshti claims that by allocating 677 seats to management quota, the rights of students from SC, ST, SEBC and EWS categories are violated. He maintains that aided and GMERS colleges have been wrongly classified as self-financed institutes, whereas they receive government funds.

He also pointed out that by a 2016 government resolution, benefits including financial assistance are provided to brownfield medical colleges at Palanpur, Dahod, Amreli and Bharuch. Hence, these colleges too should not be given the advantage of management quota.