Hello Aspirant,

Yes the news was true but there was only a proposal to start the four new medical colleges in the districts Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgir and Chikkaballapur of Karnataka but the proposal was not approved and for this year no admission will be taken in these colleges.

Due to pandemic the building of these colleges are still in construction phase and not yet in condition for conducting regular classes neither the staff has been recruited, therefore NMC has shot down the proposal for this year. Most probably from next year the admission can be started in these colleges.

So for now there are only 890 UG seats in Karnataka out of which approx. 2900 are government seats for which only those candidates are eligible who belongs to Karnataka.

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!