Thiruvananthapuram, Thursday 02 September 2010: An agreement has been taken to accept option registration for admissions to Self-Financing Medical Colleges. The decision was taken during the talks held between the government and Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association here on Thursday.

The agreement was reached in talks that Education Minister MA Baby and Health Minister PK Sreemathy had with the Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association. The government would publish an order to this effect.

Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association representatives said that the deal has been reached considering the future of the students and the deadline set by the Medical Council. Admissions and allotments will be conducted after September 13, when a final order from the apex court is expected.

Another round of talks would be held between both the parties on 14th, in which decisions on all matters including the fee structure would be reached.

Earlier report: -

M.A Baby on Wednesday said that he would hold discussions with the medical college managements for resolving the disputes regarding management quota admissions in the Self financing colleges in the State. While the medical management association has informed that the government had not officially invited them to the meeting.

Minister added that he hoped that the management associations would abide by the contract. The Supreme Court of India had earlier backed the Kerala High Court’s verdict canceling the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association in its 11 member colleges for the 2010-11 academic year.

The SC informed that the High Court verdict was based on the observation that the entrance test conducted by the management consortium was not credible.

The apex court came down heavily on the managements opining that self financing education sector has turned into a commercial sector. The court approved the judgment by the HC that the entrance test lacked transparency.

The Mohammed committee had earlier informed that the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association in its 11 member colleges for the 2010-11 academic year was against the laws. Committee informed that the management had conducted the examinations without the consent of the committee.

Even though the Mohammed committee had asked for submitting the documents the association failed to do so.

Earlier report: -

The High Court had directed to make admissions to management quota based on Common Entrance rank list of the Entrance commissioner. Allowing 3 writ petitions by Rizwana and two others, who failed to get admissions and challenged the legality of the test, Justice S Sirijagan declared that the association was not entitled to make admissions.

The Court said the admission procedures did not satisfy the triple test–fair, transparent and non exploitative. Justice Sirijagan also found the CET was not supervised by the admission supervisory committee headed by Justice P A Mohammed.

The Committee also informed the court that there was no prior information about the conduct of the test. The test, conducted on May 30, was for 550 seats in 11 colleges under the association and 35 per cent of seats are under the management quota.