‘FREE-HAND’ ADMISSION RUMOURS UPSET ASPIRANTS

PIOs and NRIs for management quota seats.”

Mr Raj Bhandari from the city said, “Though it’s a good thing to have only one exams for medical admissions all over India, they should have planned it properly instead of creating such a mess for parents and students. They should have conducted the counselling sessions in one go, instead of separate counselling sessions for each of the states.”

He said that prohibiting NRI students from applying for management quota seats was a discriminatory practice.

“The online form was not ready to register our options, due to which we could not select our preferences in the first round. We had to face a lot of issues in the first round of counselling,” he said.

“After all this chaos I just hope that I will be able to secure a seat under the management quota this year for my daughter,” he added. Students seeking admissions in MBBS and BDS in management quota are in distress following rumours like that some aspirants have secured admissions even before the counselling began.

A parent said, “We heard a few people stating that colleges have been given a free hand to make admissions for C category seats which were vacant after the first round of counselling. A few of my daughter’s friends said they had secured seats which sounded strange.” He said amid all the rumours, he was worried if his daughter could get a seat.

Mr Karunakar Reddy, Vice-Chancellor of Kaloji Narayana Rao Health Science University, which oversees the admissions said, “Unless all admissions are over through counselling, no private college management can enrol students on their own. Only after the counselling is over can college managements enrol students for leftover seats.”

He said private college managements may be registering students for future enrolment as they may not get students at the last moment once counselling is completed.

“We have also heard such rumours because agents misguide parents to lure them to pay for seats without even counselling. If parents are being misguided by such agents, we request them to complain to us so that we can take strict action against them.”

He said parents must not trust such agents and pay them money.