Acting tough to ensure discipline and check illegal admissions, the Dental Council of India (DCI) for the first time, has refused to recognise admissions to MDS and PG Diploma courses of four colleges for the academic session 2017-18 after they failed to furnish details of the students admitted by them.
These colleges are Dr Syamala Reddy Dental College Hospital & Research Centre, Bangalore (Karnataka), NIMS Dental College, Jaipur (Rajasthan), Vyas Dental College, Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and Kalka Dental College, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), as per the website of the top dental education regulator.
Sources in the DCI said that dental colleges are being regularly asked to submit the list of new students within a time frame immediately after completing the admission process. The move aims to ensure that students do not suffer in case of illegal admissions following complaints that some colleges were admitting students without qualifying their entrance test.
"It was noted that these colleges neither submitted nor uploaded the details on the website," sources in the DCI said.
The refusal to grant admission is a stern message to the other colleges as well to ensure that students do not have to suffer in case of “illegal” admissions.
A decision in this regard was taken by the Executive Committee of the DCI.
With about 309 dental colleges in the country, 26,000 dentists graduate every year However, the distribution is uneven. A few States like Karnataka are having higher number of dental colleges as compared to some other States like Bihar, Gujarat, etc.