K'taka to notify revised fee structure for payment seats on July 17

Udupi, July 15 (UNI) The Karnataka Government will issue a notification on the revised fee structure for payment seats in professional colleges on July 17, Medical Education Minister V S Acharya informed today.

Addressing the press conference here, he clarified that under the revised fee structure for payment seats under the CET, a student joining an engineering course would have to pay Rs 60,000 of the total annual fee of Rs 85,000, while the remaining would be matched as subsidy by the government.

Similar was the case with dental and medical payment seats.

Of the total annual fee of Rs 2.30 lakh for dental seats, students would have to pay Rs 1.50 lakh and for medical seats, of the total annunal fee of Rs 2.90 lakh, students would have to pay Rs two lakh, he added.

Dr Acharya said as announced in the Budget, the government had decided to meet the entire fees of 270 girls, who had secured top marks and were aspiring to join professional courses. Ten students each would be selected from each district under the scheme.

He informed that it had been decided to maintain the last year's fee structure for free seats.

The Minister said efforts were also on to get approval from the Centre and Medical Council of India for opening one medical college each in Shimoga, Hassan, Bellary and Raichur.

To a query, he said the government was ready to provide all necessary assistance, if anyone came forward to set up a medical college in districts like Uttar Kannada, Chamarajanagar, Gadag, Chikmagalur, Koppal, Kodagu and Haveri.

Dr Acharya, also the district in-charge minister, said the government had released Rs 10.74 crore as compensation for people who had given up their land for the 2.4 km road widening project between Bannanje and Kadiyali in the heart of the city.

Later, the Minister also took part in a function organised here by the Department of Kannada and Culture and MGM college and released four volumes of dramas written by late Jnanpith Awardee Shivaram Karanth. The books were published by the department.

Speaking on the occasion, Kannada and Culture Department Commissioner K R Niranjan said the department had already brought out 22 volumes of Dr Karanth's works and steps were being taken to publish the remaining nine volumes of the eminent litterateur under ''Janapriya Shatiya Prakashana Yojane.'' UNI MA RG MSJ BST2217