Samaja reports that BPUT will soon come up with an additional list and do additional round of counseling for that list to fill-up the left-over seats in Engineering, MBA etc. It says that out of a total 14,600 seats in engineering, of the 10,642 seats earmarked for JEE, 251 seats are left. Similarly, for MBA, out of 2500 seats, 1406 are earmarked for JEE and out of that 517 seats are left. In MBBS among the 300 seats in the private medical colleges, 210 are earmarked for JEE, and 143 seats are left. In architecture out of 119 seats 90 are left over. In BDS (dental) out of 350 seats 325 are left.
On AIEEE it mentions that the government will soon come up with the schedule. For AIEEE there are 2250 engineering seats, 325 MBA seats, 154 pharmacy seats, 325 MCA seats, 18 architect seats, 18 hotel management seats, 45 MBBS seats and 45 BDS seats.
In addition 15% seats are reserved for NRIs and they will be charged 4 times the amount charged for regular seats.
Schedule: GE (general) 1-580, SC 1-85, ST 1-110, PH (physically handicapped) 1-18, MI (military) 1-48, GC (green card- i.e. parents have less than or equal to 2 kids) 1-156
SCB (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
MKCG (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 2, MI 0, GC 0)
VSS (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 3, MI 0, GC 0 )
KIMS Medical (GE 18, SC 5, ST 7, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
IMS Medical (GE 36, SC 4 , ST 9, PH 0, MI 0 , GC3 )
HiTech Medical (GE 42 , SC 5, ST 7, PH 0 , MI 0 , GC 4)
SCB Dental (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
KIIT Dental (GE 51, SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 3)
IDS Dental (GE 49, SC 6, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
Hi-Tech Dental (GE 51, SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0 , GC 3)
Gandhi Dental (GE 26, SC 3, ST 4, PH 0, MI 0, GC 2)
Observations:
Orissa does not have enough rich families that can afford to send their kids to private medical colleges.
Thus there is a need for more government medical colleges.
Among the private medical colleges the order of preference seems to be KIMS followed by IMS followed by Hi-Tech. Its interesting that among these three Hi-Tech is the oldest and the other two only got MCI approval this year. However the other two are either part of or associated with deemed universities.
BARIPADA, Aug 3:- Taking note of the persistent demand and the need for establishment of medical colleges in north Orissa districts, Dr Ramesh Chandra Chaupattnaik Chyau Patnaik who heads the Standing Committee of the assembly said he will recommend setting up of two medical colleges at Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts. He strongly felt that the district headquarter hospital at Baripada was a suitable place for a medical college with 300 beds and other infrastructure. He said as per the population at least three to four more medical colleges were necessary in the state.
The Pioneer reported that State Government finds itself in a catch-22 situation on whether to roll back the hiked admission fees for the medical streams or not. It says,
the JEE counselling for the medical stream (MBBS) has been shifted to August 9 and 10. All the decisions regarding the revision of the fee-structures would be announced before the scheduled period.
The State Government has already sent its appeal to the Fee Structure Committee headed by Justice KP Mohapatra to reconsider its decision regarding the hike in fees. One student has to pay at least Rs 4.5 lakh to get into the medical stream in any of the private medical college in the State. The fees have been hiked from earlier Rs 2.5 lakh to a whooping Rs 4.5 lakh.
As Justice Mohapatra, is away from Orissa and would be back on July 22, so all decisions regarding fee- revision have been put on hold, as of now. However, sources added, the Fee Structure Committee would at best lessen the fees by Rs 50,000 and not more than that. Earlier, it was proposed to limit the fee structure to Rs 4 lakh and later it was hiked to Rs 4.5 lakh. However, the private engineering colleges are not in a mood to listen to the Government’s plea to lessen the fee structure.
Fearing public anger the Orissa government has asked the committee that recommended a 4.5 lakh/year fees for private medical colleges to take a second look at that. Following are excerpts from Pioneer’s report on this.
Drawing flak from student bodies as well as the public, the State Government on Tuesday appealed to the Fee Structure Committee (FSC) to reconsider its decision on the hike of admission fees particularly in the medical stream.
A student has to pay at least Rs 4.5 lakh per annum as against last year’s Rs 2.2 lakh to get into a medical college. In this connection, Industry Minister Biswa Bhusan Harichandan called a high-level meeting of officials on Tuesday. Secretary, Industry also attended the meeting.
It may be noted that the FSC headed by a retired justice had stipulated the annual fee for the 4-year MBBS degree at Rs 4.5 lakh. Orissa has 750 MBBS seats.
The State Government is of the opinion that if it sticks to this fee structure recommended by the Committee, a public resentment would certainly sweep the entire State.
"It is the Government which will face the public anger," said a senior official on the condition of anonymity, adding that if required, the Government may ignore the recommendations of the Panel for the greater interest of the student community.
However, the Government has not yet decided whether it would appeal to the Committee about reconsidering the decision on the admission to the engineering and other streams like MBA.
Tathya.in first reported that in light of the fact that Berhampur and Sambalpur medical colleges will now have additional 43 seats each, the medical counseling in Orissa will now be redone. This will allow students who were forced to pick a private college, or who just opted out because they could not afford paying the fees in a private college, to now try to get one of the new seats in Berhampur and Sambalpur medical colleges. Following is an ad on this that appeared in Samaja.
Finally the government has announced the fee structure for the various degrees. This has been reported in several places. Following are excerpts from the report in Tathya.in.
The annual fee for private medical colleges has been proposed at Rs 4.5 lakh.
For BDS degree announced fee structure is Rs.2.10 lakh per annum.
The fees per year would range from Rs 32,000 to Rs 58,000 for different engineering colleges.
ITER, Bhubaneswar, NIST ,Berhampur, GIE&T,Gunupur and SIT, Bhubaneswar will be charging Rs58,000 per annum.
Lowest fee will be charged by PKACE, Bargarh, which is Rs32,000.
For a MBA degree highest fee Rs. 90,000 will be charged by RCM, Bhubaneswar, RIMS, Rourkela and IPSR, Cuttack.
KISD, Bhubaneswar will be charging lowest fee of Rs.40,000 for a management degree.
In MCA a student has to cough out highest fee of Rs.75,000 in ITER, Bhubaneswar and lowest fee of Rs. 28,000 will be charged by BIET, Bhadrak.
For a Pharmacy Program the highest fee structure is Rs.45, 000 and lowest is Rs.35,000.
The following is from http://www.aicte.ernet.in/approval/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-List.doc (as of July 12 2007) reached via http://www.aicte.ernet.in/app_inst_new.htm after clicking the scrolling sentence in AICTE web page that says “Approval status 2007-08 as on 05-07-2007.â€
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Earlier we touched upon the working group recommendation in the 11th plan. Going through the report of the higher education working group we noticed the following recommendation (in Section 3.4.3 page 20) with respect to central universities in the north eastern region.
Faculty of medical studies needs to be established in all central universities in the north eastern region.
I think the proposed central university in Koraput should be treated at par with central universities in the north eastern region.
Pragativadi reports that the KIIT foundation plans to establish an autism center at KIMS (Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences). Following are some excerpts from that report.
The workshop was inaugurated by Prof Nalini Menon, head of Rainbow Centre for Autism, Bangalore.
In his opening address, chancellor of KIIT University, Dr Achyut Samant said that KIMS would soon have a modern centre for treatment and research on autism to be set up under able guidance of Menon.
Stating that a majority of the patients from Orissa have to go to Bangalore for the treatment of this disorder, Dr Samant said that the proposed autism centre at KIMS would be immensely beneficial for the patients as we as researchers in the field.
Addressing the workshop, Prof Menon said that Autism is not localised in India but prevalent in all parts of the world.
In his speech, Dr Kailash Chandra Panda, former principal of the Regional Institute of Education, said that autism is a pervasive developmental neurological disorder, which is detectable from age of three onwards in affected children.
The proposed autism center at KIMS would be the first of its kind in the state, he informed.
