Panel mulls slashing of fee structure in private medical colleges
Business Line Published By: Anonymous If the Board of Governors drafts guidelines sails through, almost 75 per cent of total medical seats in the country would be available at reasonable fees. In what could prove to be a significant relief for medical students, a panel tasked with drafting guidelines for fee structure in private medical colleges is mulling slashing fees for half of the graduate and post-graduate seats by 70 per cent and 90 per cent respectively. With the process of constitution of National Medical Commission currently on, the Union Health Ministry has asked the Board of Governors (BoG), vested with powers of the MCI, to prepare draft guidelines for the fee structure in private medical colleges and deemed universities from the next academic session. According to sources, with this reduction planned by the BoG, fees of 50 per cent of MBBS seats in private medical colleges will range between ₹ 6 lakh to ₹ 10 lakh. Currently, in several states,...