Now self financing dental colleges in TN reduce fees to attract more students
Posted on: 01/Sep/2018 9:50:48 AM
Counselling for admissions to dental courses have been going on in Tamil Nadu is known. It is now brought out that after 4 days of counselling there are 50% undergraduate dental seats remaining vacant including 23% under the government quota. The self financing dental colleges are attracting more students now by reducing the tuition fees from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh.
It is important to note that on Thursday, 30th August 2018 as many as 284 BDS seats out of total 1198 under the government quota and as many as 680 BDS seats out of total 715 seats under the management quota in self financing colleges were not filled. Only 10 government quota seats and 13 seats belonging to the management quota were taken by the students.
The state selection committee officials who are in-charge of the admissions to all the medical and dental colleges affiliated to TN Dr. MGR Medical University spoke about how they do not want empty seats to remain vacant. Dr. G. Selvarajan, who is the secretary of the selection committee, expressed his opinion and spoke about how in the year 2017 as many as 265 seats under the management quota in self financing colleges were vacant and all the government quota seats were taken up. He later added that in the government quota there were not many vacancies. He threw light on how the students this year who couldn’t get MBBS seats have taken a year off to improve their NEET scores in 2019. The applicants who cleared NEET and those with scores of 96 out of 720 were asked to come for the counselling on Thursday.
The secretary of selection committee further highlighted about how the students who did not apply for the counselling were asked to make fresh applications. The college management were also asked to reduce the tuition fees. September 6th is the last date for the fresh applications and revised rank list would be published by the committee. The call for counselling would be by 9th of September and counselling would take place till 12th September
Dental Council of India member, Dr. S.N. Balaji, spoke about how the situation was grim and how the dental practise had lost its lustre due to many factors. He explained how from more than 300 dental colleges in India around 26000 dentists come out every year. He clarified that in the year 2004 India had one dentist per 10000 people in urban places and 1 dentist per 2.5lakh people in the villages. There were 1 dentist per 8000 people in the urban areas and 1 dentist for 50000 people living in the rural areas in the year 2017. Dr. Balaji spoke about the lack of adequate jobs inspite of the shortage.
A dentist from Salem spoke his heart out. He spoke about how dentists do not get job in the private sector and even if they get jobs in the private sector they were paid less. The truth is only a small fraction of the population gives importance about their dental health.
