Nineteen private medical colleges are under the state government’s scanner following complaints that they are selling medical post-graduate seats in the management quota. The seats are being sold for up to Rs 1.5 crore each, it is alleged. The department of medical education has summoned the principals of the 19 private medical colleges to its office on Wednesday to probe the matter.
There are 750 PG medical seats in the state, with 375 of them in the management quota. The demand for seats is huge, and as a consequence, colleges have been allegedly auctioning the seats even before the government counselling was over in April. A committee has been constituted by the state government to scrutinise each and every admission made under the management quota and determine whether the rules were followed or whether merit students were denied seats. The committee will submit its report in two weeks.
The committee is headed by director of medical education Dr Vishnu Prasad, with principals of three government medical colleges as members. All relevant documents have to be placed before the committee. There were complaints that some colleges have not issued admission notifications in prominent newspapers as mandated. When students asked the colleges for the application forms, they were told that the seats were already filled. Several candidates then complained to the Medical Council of India, which asked the state government to probe the issue. It also threatened to cancel those admissions that were made by violating the norms.