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Compared to erstwhile years, determination has been a surge successful the request for Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) courses successful Karnataka, and nary seats person been vacant for the past 2 years. All the 2,709 BDS seats disposable successful 2025 and 2,650 successful 2024 person been taken.
This is simply a departure from earlier years erstwhile dental seats would stay vacant. Out of the 2,709 seats disposable successful 2023, 199 seats were not taken. In 2022, retired of 2,810 seats available, a monolithic 1,398 seats had remained vacant.
Sharan Prakash Patil, Minister for Medical Education, acknowledged that determination was a increasing involvement successful the dental course. Compared to different nonrecreational courses, determination is traditionally a higher request for seats successful aesculapian and dental courses. However, successful caller years, owed to shrinking occupation opportunities and different factors, the dental people had mislaid its charm. The dental people was the 2nd prime for aesculapian spot aspirants who did not marque it to medicine.
Changed scenario
However, owed to changed circumstances, including caller dental colleges not being opened and fig of seats not going up, the disposable seats are getting filled.
According to sources successful the Medical Education Department, hold successful the aesculapian spot allotment process, precocious support for expanding aesculapian seats, tribunal cases related to aesculapian admissions person besides contributed to expanding request for the dental course.
However, astatine the aforesaid time, seats successful Pharmacy, Pharm Science, AYUSH, BSc Nursing, and others courses proceed to stay vacant. Out of the full seats disposable this year, 791 seats successful Pharmacy, 36 successful Pharma Science, 174 successful Yoga Naturopathy, and 995 successful AYUSH people stay vacant.
Nursing seats
Out of the 34,050 nursing seats disposable this year, lone 12,386 seats person been filled. In 2024, a full of 16,744 and successful 2023 arsenic galore arsenic 22,774 seats had remained vacant.
Dr. Patil said, “From 2023 onwards, nursing seats are besides being filled done Common Entrance Test (CET), which is conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority successful the State. As galore arsenic 20% of authorities quota seats and 80% of backstage and absorption quota seats are besides being filled connected the ground of CET rank. The interest for authorities quota seats is ₹10,000, portion the interest for backstage quota seats is astir ₹1,00,000, which students find expensive.” As a result, authorities quota seats were getting filled, portion backstage and absorption quota seats person remained vacant.
