Faridkot, August 8: The Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) on Monday announced that 348 MBBS seats remained vacant after the first round of counselling. About 1,100 MBBS seats are on offer in eight medical colleges in the state.
The second phase of counselling will start on August 8.
Several medical aspirants, who were allotted MBBS seats in Adesh Medical College, Bathinda, and Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, in the first round on August 4, surrendered their claim on the seats.
The Bathinda college has 137 vacant seats. The college has 150 seats.
Of the 123 students who had opted for Adesh Medical College, 110 vacated their seats. The reason being high tuition fee (Rs63.95 lakh against Rs40.29 lakh in other private colleges for seats the management quota).
In Amritsar college that offers 124 MBBS seats, 24 students gave up their claim. Most of them surrendered their government quota seats.
It is so because 75 MBBS seats under the government quota in the college are caught in a legal fight. So students preferred not to take any risk.
The Amritsar college demands scrapping of government quota. Instead, it wants that all seats be declared under the management quota.
There are 22 seats vacant in the DMCH, Ludhiana; 13 in CMC, Ludhiana, and 46 in PIMS, Jalandhar.
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