Bengaluru: The State Government has on Friday February 11 announced that waiver of the penalty clause for professional courses is applicable only for the current academic year. This has given great relief for medical seat aspirants holding onto engineering seats who would otherwise had to pay hefty sum while surrendering it during casual rounds.
Considering the delay of NEET – UG counselling due to the pending petitions before the Supreme Court, Minister for Higher Education Dr .C. N. Ashwath Narayan announced the government’s decision to waive off the clause. Minister also said that the fee, collected from students for engineering seats, will be refunded if they opt for medical seats. Further, the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has been instructed to refund the fee paid for engineering seats to the students if they opt for the medical seats.
During the 2020 – 2021 academic year 168 students had paid the penalty and the total penalty collected by the KEA was Rs 1.18 Crore.
The government introduced this system to prevent seat blocking practice.
