BENGALURU: Hundreds of undergraduate medical seats are vacant even after the second round of seat allotment. As per the data available from Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), as many as 757 medical seats are still vacant this year, a trend that deviates from the past two years when no seats were left vacant. Officials and experts from the medical sector attribute it to the delay in announcement of NEET results.
“This year, the announcement of NEET results was delayed by almost a month and this forced many candidates to get admissions into engineering and other courses,” said the principal of a medical college in the city. Meanwhile, KEA has decided to conduct a mop-up round to fill the vacant medical and dental seats. If there are no takers, the vacant seats will be converted into management seats. Even in engineering courses, of the total 62,000 available seats, 19,000 seats were vacant. In COMED-K too, over 10,000 engineering seats of the total 15,500 seats are vacant this time. According to experts, the availability of more seats than the demand and the poor job scenario in recent times have resulted in many seats remaining vacant.
