NRI Admissions: Know private medical colleges in Karnataka

NRI Quota in Medical Colleges in Karnataka - There are 39 private medical colleges in Karnataka with a total of 5945 MBBS seats across all categories of candidates. A total of 15% seats of the numbers approved by the Medical Council of India are available for NRI candidates aspiring to pursue an MBBS programme from Karnataka. Approximately 890 seats out of the total 5945 seats approved by MCI at private medical colleges in Karnataka are available for NRI aspirants. MBBS admissions in Karnataka is conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority. Along with MBBS, Karnataka Examinations Authority also overseas other examinations such as Engineering / Architecture courses, Farm sciences such as Agriculture, Sericulture, Horticulture, Forestry, Agri Bio Tech, Home Science, Agri.Engg, Food Technology, Dairy Tech, Fisheries, Food Science &Tech, Agri. Marketing & Co-Op, B-Pharma, and Pharma-D courses. The medical colleges in Karnataka are affiliated to a number of universities. They are:

• Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

• KLE Academy of Higher Education & Research (Deemed), Belgaum

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Deemed University), Manipal

• Nitte University (Deemed), Mangalore

• Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed University), Kolar

• Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education, Tumkur

• Yenepoya University of Health Sciences (Deemed), Mangalore

For admission to MBBS courses in Karnataka, an NRI aspirant has to qualify NEET just like the resident Indian aspirant. NEET-UG is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). NEET-UG is going to be conducted on May 5, 2019. After qualifying the exam, aspirants have to register for the counselling with the Karnataka Examinations Authority. The admission offers will be done based on merit. Merit is determined by the NEET score obtained by the aspirants.

NRI Definition for Private Medical Colleges in Karnataka

As per the defined in The Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006  “Non Resident Indian” refers to “a candidate born to a parent of Indian origin residing outside the country and has passed the qualifying equivalent examination outside India” and includes persons of Indian origin and Overseas citizens of India

• Candidates who have passed qualifying examination outside India should have registered in MCI

• For the purpose of verification, e‐document may be considered with regard to NRI sponsorship certificate subject to submitting the original at the time of taking the admission.

Mandatory Documents required for NRI candidate:

• Resident certificate of the candidate’s parents issued by the Embassy of the country they are residing and complying the Income Tax Rules

• The passport / VISA/ Resident VISA of the candidate

• Citizenship of the candidate

• Income Tax Documents required as per the Income Tax Act 1961

• Study certificate of the candidate’s for proof of the qualifying examination.

Mandatory Documents required for NRI sponsorship candidate

• Resident certificate of the sponsor of the candidate issued by the Embassy of the country of residence complying with the Income Tax Rules

• Passport / VISA/ Resident VISA of the sponsor

• Citizenship of the sponsor

• PAN/Tax document of the sponsor

• Affidavit from the candidate (e‐document – Annexure IV)

NRI seat Eligibility Criteria: As per a Supreme Court order, the eligibility criteria for NRI seat aspirants are:

1. One of the parents should be an NRI and shall ordinarily be residing abroad as an NRI

2. The person who sponsors the student for admission should be a first-degree relation of the student and should be residing abroad as an NRI

3. If the student has no parents or near relatives or taken as a ward by some other nearest relative such students also may be considered provided the guardian has bona fide treated the student as a ward and such guardian shall file an affidavit indicating the interest shown in the affairs of the student and also his relationship with the student and such a person should be an NRI, and ordinarily residing abroad.

‘Nearest relative’ is defined as:

1. Real brother and sister of father i.e. real aunt and real uncle

2. Real brother and sister of mother i.e. real maternal aunt and real maternal uncle

3. Father and mother of either parent i.e. maternal or paternal grandfather and  maternal or paternal grandmother

4. First degree paternal and maternal cousins

5. Such a person should be an NRI

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Karnataka Examinations Authority makes it mandatory for all candidates to

• Produce a printout of NEET 2018 admit card & score card issued by NBE for medical & dental courses,

• KEA online registration form and

• Copy of the challan for page 5 of 16 having paid the fees on the day of document verification along with other relevant documents

Important Dates for Karnataka MBBS BDS Counselling 2019

*Tentative Dates

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