Flip-Flop: Medical on Demand, No Takers for Engineering
By
siliconindia | Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 17:19 IST
While engineering colleges are facing a tough battle in terms of students, medical seats are on sale! Medical and dental seats cornered through proxies passing entrance exams are sold for sums ranging from
75 lakh to
9 lakh, police discovered after busting the racket.
The scam and misuse division of Central Crime Branch (CCB) busted a medical college admission racket under which merit quota seats in high-status institutions were purportedly sold to would-be doctors as management quota seats.
According to police, the accused would get brilliant professionals or intelligent students to write entrance exams like CET and UGET of ComedK. These candidates would pass the exam with high rankings and book seats in prestigious medical colleges. And then the accused would get these candidates give up their seats on the last day of admission as such seats would automatically get incorporated in the management quota seats. And later, the same seats would be sold to aspiring doctors for huge sums of money.
It's money making time for students and college managements during admissions. And this is how they earn. Intelligent students write entrance tests, clear them, and choose medical or dental seats, but they decline on the last day of admission. The seats surrendered are converted into management quota. At the end, student who writes the entrance test is paid a minimum
7 lakh to
10 lakh from the money earned by the colleges which get a student admitted through management quota.




