Even dental seats need a filling
View(s):More than 800 BDS seats remain vacant in the State this year, and academics are worried
Professional courses may not have lost flavour completely with the students, but some streams are fighting tooth and nail for survival. With more than 800 dental seats remaining vacant in Karnataka at the end of the counselling for entrance into Bachelor of Dental Science (BDS) this year, academicians point out that this situation is a cause of concern and reflects a disparity in the demand and supply for dental seats.
At the end of the counselling conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority after taking up the Common Entrance Test, 259 dental seats were remaining. A major chunk of the seats under the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) — to the extent of 73 per cent — were left vacant as there were no takers for 550 out of the total 748 dental seats.
A.S. Srikanth, Chief Executive, COMED-K, pointed out that there is a gap between demand and supply this year. He also said that there was a need for the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) to look into the issue. After assessing the number of vacant dental seats over the past five years in the State, Jayakar Shetty M., Executive Committee member of the Dental Council of India (DCI), said that the Council instructed the State Government and the Universities to stop giving permission for the establishment of new dental colleges.
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