Deemed univs lure aspirants for mgmt seats

Deemed univs lure aspirants for mgmt seats

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

12.01.2021

The state selection committee is conducting the last leg of the counselling with 432 management quota seats left in self-financing colleges, but deemed universities in the state are luring students to apply for 89 management seats and 146 NRI seats that were returned to the colleges as they fell vacant after three rounds of counselling including a mop-round.

Across the country, 1,092 such seats in deemed universities have been returned to colleges for counselling through offline mode. The list of eligible candidates will be forwarded to the respective institutions by the medical counselling committee (MCC) of the Directorate General of Health Services.

While colleges are advertising about the oncampus stray vacancy round, agents have been calling parents and students asking them if they were still interested in undergraduate medical programmes.

On Monday, Sridhar Srinivasan, who works as a marketing head for a manufacturing company, received a call from an agent regarding his daughter’s admission. “He told us that the state counselling will be held until 13. If my daughter does not make it to any of the colleges, she can try for admission there. But admissions are done on a first-come-first-serve basis. They will give her the seat if her name is on the MCC list,” he said.

While students and parents have been visiting several deemed universities, student counsellors are now demanding a revamp. “Meritbased admission through NEET is defeated with such stray rounds. How will colleges get candidates in two days if the MCC is not able to fill them after three rounds of counselling over several weeks,” asked Manickavel Arumugam, who has been counselling students on MBBS admissions.