NDTV News reports - Medical and dental colleges in Maharashtra are selling seats, meant for NRIs to local students for lakhs of rupees.
The colleges are allowed to charge almost three times more for NRI seats but many of them have admitted 'fake' NRIs instead.
Every medical and dental college can reserve 15 per cent seats for NRI students who can be charged nearly three times the fees, compared to general category.
An NRI seat costs upto Rs 6 lakh in medical colleges and over Rs 4 lakh in dental colleges, compared to an average Rs 2.5 lakh in general category.
NRI seats are given out on the condition that the students are legitimate, either NRIs or wards of NRIs.
But now the Pravesh Niyantran Samiti that monitors admissions has found that several of the state's private medical and dental colleges have admitted fake NRI students, all for big money.
The committee has now cancelled admissions of these fake NRI students. In five private medical colleges, it has cancelled nearly 80 per cent NRI admissions.
In colleges like MGM all NRI admissions were found fake. The same goes for private dental colleges where 35 per cent of NRI admissions were cancelled.
Cracking down on the defaulters, the admissions watchdog says that none of these colleges could ''produce even a scrap of paper in support of the claim that the student admitted against NRI quota seats is a ''ward'' or can legally claim to be a ''ward'' of an NRI.''
It appears to be a clear sale of valuable seats by medical and dental colleges to those who can afford to buy them.
NRI quota students need not give the tough Common Entrance Test. Their only eligibility criteria is that they are genuine NRI or their wards. All they need are deep pockets to become a doctor or a dentist.
But now these fake NRI students will lose a year of medical or dental education for which they have paid big money.
Related Links : Medical Entrance Exam Notifications 2007-08
MBBS Entrance Exam Solved Question Paper Books and Test Preparation CDs
- Best Medical Colleges in India - 25 Colleges
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment