At a time when the Russia-Ukraine war put the spotlight on the demand-supply gap in medical courses in India owing to the number of Indian students who were forced to return from Ukraine, as many as 2,800 management quota undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) medical and dental seats are lying vacant in various private medical and dental colleges across the State.
In the academic year 2021-22, there was no demand for 700 MBBS seats under management quota. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has completed its seat allotment process and surrendered unfilled seats to the private medical colleges concerned.
Karnataka has got 14,305 medical seats, including 10,260 UG and 4,045 PG seats. KEA is the seat allotment authority in the State and has successfully completed four rounds of seat allotment, including the mop-up round. After the final allotment, 700 UG medical and 1,300 dental, and 600 PG medical and 200 PG dental seats remained unfilled.
