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NASHIK, AUG 8: A student has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court after being denied transfer of admission by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS). The petition is scheduled for hearing on Monday.The student, Shraddha Vilas Pradhan, was not allowed to transfer her admission from the Annasaheb Chudaman Patil Memorial Medical College, Dhule, to the D Y Patil Womens' Medical College in Pune, where 100 additional seats became available after the admission process of the MUHS had started. Pradhan has pointed out in her petition that when the MUHS began its first round of counselling for admissions to various medical courses on July 11, the 100 medical seats available for female students at the Pune College, were not shown in the list of available seats, as there was some problem regarding recognition of the college. Hence, at the time of exercising her option, she was not able to claim a seat in the Pune college and had to settle for a seat in the Dhule college. The 100 seats of the Punecollege were made available later and when she approached the authorities, she was told that she would not be able to transfer her admission from Dhule to Pune.
Pradhan is a student of the R Y K Science College in Nashik. She passed the HSC (Science) examination in March 1999, securing 83 per cent of marks. She appeared for the CET conducted by the MUHS on Mary 23, 1999 and secured 104.5 marks out of 150 in the PCB group. Her State merit list number was 2051 and the regional merit list number was 1510. In view of the seat availability position during the first round, she was able to get a payment seat for the MBBS course in the Dhule college. The 100 seats at the D Y Patil Womens' Medical College were not available then. She claimed the seat out the State merit list. She has stated that since she was provisionally selected for admission to the Dhule college and the first round of admissions was still in progress, and that the 100 seats of the Pune college were not publicised earlier, she had the right totransfer her admission from one private college to another and from one payment seat to another.
She had approached the college and the university, but was reportedly told that her selection and admission process had been completed and that there was no question of considering her case for admission to another college.She has prayed that the court declare the rule which does not permit transfer from one private medical college to another as illegal; order respondents to consider her case for admission to the Pune college and that her admission to Nashik District Maratha Vidhya Prasarak Samaj's Medical College, Nashik be also considered. Incidentally, the MUHS has declared the first round of admissions would be completed by Saturday.
Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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