29 September 2014, Raipur:
Unlike past years this year there has suddenly become a shortness of students
who are willing to take admission into BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) course at
the government college. So far, even after the fourth round of counseling, only
six out of 100 seats have been filled. This has become the biggest BDS Seats Under AIPMT news
so far.
Dr. Sumit Tripathi, DME Deputy Director said, “The manual
counseling that held on Thursday turned out to be a total ‘Flop Show’ as no student
turned out for the session. With a drastically large 94% of the seats vacant,
the whole batch is going to have only 26 students out of which 20 students are
those who took admissions last year but failed to appear in the final
examinations.”
As stated previously, this year’s response to BDS admissions
have been extremely poor with the first time occurrence of such scenario
wherein 94% of the seats remain vacant that too of a government college, seats
that are most sought after by the students.
The government has already surrendered its 250 quota seats in
the five private dental colleges throughout the state but like government seats
they too have remained vacant. Such response is attributed to the government’s
decision to not hold a separate entrance Pre Medical Test. All MBBS and BDS admissions
have been made through AIPMT this year.
Out of the 20,000 students that have participated from the
state for AIPMT, only a small group of 760 qualified. Out of these students,
the ones who have a good ranking have already taken admissions in medical
colleges outside the state, the rest have been absorbed into the MBBS programs
in the nearby medical colleges leaving no students left for the BDS Course.