Introduction of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), would only benefit the state students by giving them access to admission in national-level institutions and also to seats available under the all-India quota, Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas said.
“The students who would face NEET UG, need not to attend other competitive examinations for seeking admissions into various other private institutions including that of COMED-K in the state,” he told reporters.
By appearing for NEET, the students in Karnataka would be awarded national-level ranking by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). And with this ranking they would also be eligible to seek admissions in national institutions, except All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and Jawaharlal Institute of PG Medical education and Research in Puducherry.
He said that the notification for NEET UG courses would be issued by the CBSE shortly.
It will also helps the state students to garner more number of seats available from the all-India quota of 15 per cent, he said.
Informing that the mandate of the CBSE is only to prepare question papers and award both national and state-level rankings, the minister said that the rest of the tasks would be assigned to the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) including seat allocation as per the reservation policy of the state.
While admitting that there are gaps to be bridged as for as the curriculum between CBSE and state syllabus are concerned, Ramdas said that to overcome this, instructions have been given to KEA to go ahead through TV channel teaching, website programming, hold mock test and utilising the services of expert teachers. “Over 160 hours of coaching would be provided by expert teachers,” he said.
Informing that many of the students in Karnataka are rural-based and are studying in Kannada medium, he said that he has written a letter to the chairman of CBSE, appealing him to maintain the CET standard of questions for NEET next year. “I have also appealed the CBSE to provide Kannada version question paper of NEET 2013,” the minister added.
Informing that the CBSE has identified three centres, Bangalore, Mangalore and Hubli to conduct UG exams, the minister said that and he has also appealed CBSE board to increase the number of centres from three to seven at Mysore, Gulbarga, Belgaum and Shimoga.
He said that as many as 87,000 students among the 1,26,000 are expected to attend the NEET-2013 from over 700 pre-university science colleges in the state. “All supports will be given to the students especially the rural students to face NEET 2013,” the minister assured.
He also informed that the government would offer a walk-in-interview to fill 181 seats, including 33 in government colleges teaching Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy and Yoga which remained vacant during 2012-13 counseling in the state. “Shortly, a notification would be issued on the matter” he said.
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