Minister Sharan Prakash Patil directs officials to seal nursing colleges that lack basic amenities

Minister cracks whip over poor infra in nursing colleges

Bengaluru, June 13: Karnataka Medical Education, Skill Development and Livelihood Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil on Thursday issued tough instructions to the officials of his department to conduct inspection and seal the nursing colleges that have failed to provide basic infrastructure facilities to the students after availing all the facilities from the government.

Chairing the meeting with the members of the nursing college managements and medical education department officials at Vikasa Soudha, the minister said he’d received numerous complaints over lack-off infrastructure facilities in many nursing colleges. He instructed Director of Medical Education Dr. Sujatha Rathore present in the meeting to inspect and seal those colleges.

Expressing his displeasure against the managements of private colleges, Dr. Patil said the government acted soft with the managements of private colleges hoping that they would rectify their mistakes but to no avail. “Barring few, most of the colleges lack facilities such as inadequate teaching and non-teaching staff, lack of library and laboratory facilities, hygiene and other issues. They collect huge fees from students during admission but fail to provide facilities,” the minister questioned. He directed the officials to visit colleges before the admission and check if they are adhering to government’s rules and regulations and take strict action against those flouting norms.

Rejecting the demand of nursing college managements to hike the fee structure by 20 percent, Dr. Patil said that the government would always safeguard the interests of students. The fee for each student getting admission under govt quota is ₹10,000 and ₹1 lakh under management quota and for non-Karnataka students it will be ₹1.40 lakh.

The minster suggested the managements to provide 40 percent seats under government quota. There are 35,000 seats available in 611 nursing colleges. The managements fill 80 percent while 20 percent goes under government quota.
“If the managements provide 40% under govt quota then it will greatly help poor students,” Dr. Patil requested.
The minister instructed the officials to work out modalities to begin the admission process in July instead of September from the current academic year.

Senior officials including Mohammad Mohsin, Principal Secretary, Medical Education Department and PR Shivaprasad, Registrar, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences attended the meeting.

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