SC rejects Oct 7 date to fill up pvt, govt college seats
MUMBAI The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by the state Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) to extend the admission date to October 7 for all governmentrun and private medical and dental institutes in Maharashtra.
Earlier this week, the SC had allowed deemed medical and dental institutes to conduct admissions till October 7.
With no extension, the DMER has asked all 36 institutes to stay open till 11pm on Friday so that vacant seats can be filled.
All government and private institutes, however, will have to finish the procedure before the midnight of September 30, as per the apex court’s April order.
“Admissions to private institutes were affected owing to a petition filed in the Bombay high court. Similarly allotment of vacant seats in the 15% all India quota of government institutes were hit owing to another ongoing case in SC. We had sought time to ensure no vacant seats are left, but we are now helpless,” said Dr Pravin Shingare, director of DMER.
According to the schedule laid down by DMER, all institutes had to finish admissions by September 29.
However, two institutes— Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research, Talegaon and Maharashtra Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Latur—got approval from the Medical Council of India (MCI) recently and their merit lists were released earlier
Parents had complained the first list of these institutes had names of students who have sought admissions in other institutes.
“This means many seats will remain vacant even after September 30. We have not yet been informed about the procedure to fill up vacant seats,” said a parent.
DMER officials told HT the aim of extending the admission deadline to 11pm is to ensure no seats go vacant in any institute.
All institutes have been asked to submit a detailed list of seat allotment in their respective institutes and courses by Saturday morning.
“This will give us an idea of how many seats will still remain vacant Hopefully there’ll be
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