Bangalore, June 10: The nagging disagreement between Karnataka Government and the private professional colleges over the fee for professional courses and seat matrix, ended today, with both signing an agreement in the presence of Minister for Higher Education V S Acharya.
Addressing a press conference here, Dr Acharya said the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental-Karnataka (COMED-K) had agreed for sharing the seat on the ratio at 50:50.
This include 45 per cent of government quota to be filled through CET and five per cent of free seats as per AICTE for poor students qhota. The remaining 50 per cent would be filled by the college managements.
He said the fee for CET quota of medical and engineering courses would be Rs 30,000 for ranks below 25 and Rs 35,000 for others.
The COMED-K was yet to announce the fee structure.
Those colleges which have opted for CET should charge fees at Rs one lakh and it should exceed Rs 1.25 lakh. For NRI and other students, the colleges would have to notify the fees.
The minister said the counselling by CET began today and a total of 60,000 ranks were awarded this year.
Replying to a question, he said the exact number of seats available for CET was yet to be known since many colleges had applied for increase from Medical Council of India and AICTE.