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By Our Staff Reporter
BANGALORE, MAY 28. The increase in fees for postgraduate medical and dental courses has left some students who cannot afford the fees high and dry. The Medical Education Department witnessed some commotion and confusion as till 4 p.m. on Friday, around 120 medical and dental students selected by the Government through counselling, surrendered their seats because they were unable to pay the tentative fees fixed by the Karnataka High Court on Thursday. With the A.B. Murgod Committee seeking more time to finalise the fee structure for postgraduate medical and dental seats in all colleges, the court issued a tentative fee structure on Thursday for these seats which had to be paid by Friday. The court had asked the committee to arrive at a final fee structure within four weeks. "The students are in a dilemma as they are not in a position to pay the stipulated amount. We have put up a copy of the fee structure fixed by the Murgod Committee for seven professional colleges and the tentative fee structure issued by the High Court at our office for the benefit of the students," the officials said. Many private medical and dental colleges are refusing to admit students selected by the Government through its entrance test to their postgraduate courses and had communicated to the department that all the seats for these courses in their institutions had been filled up, the officials told The Hindu .
Colleges warned
The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) has taken a serious view of some colleges refusing to admit students to postgraduate medical and dental courses. In a notification on Friday, the RGUHS warned the errant colleges of action and asked them to admit students in the 50:50 ratio. It said several complaints had been received from students that they were being turned back by the colleges, although they possessed valid seat allotment letters from the Director of Medical Education. The students, it said, were not being admitted by the colleges on one pretext or other. Ingenious reasons were being invented, courts approached repeatedly and the admission process was being stalled by the colleges. Besides, the students were being made to run from "pillar to post" and exorbitant sums of money were being asked as fees. The students were being made to sign all kinds of undertakings.
Directive to colleges
The High Court on Friday directed five medical colleges not to discharge postgraduate students (who had been admitted under the reserved category) for eight weeks on the ground of non-payment of fees. The petitioners, Srinivas M., Vinuth and four others, all MBBS graduates, said they belonged to the Scheduled Caste (SC) category and were, therefore, eligible for reservation and fee concession. They had taken the entrance test and awarded ranks by the Directorate of Medical Education and the selection committee for postgraduate courses in medicine. While accepting their claim for reservation, the committee fixed Rs. 15,000 as fees. Justice K.L. Manjunath directed the five medical colleges not to discharge the petitioners for eight weeks on the ground of non-payment of fees. He also directed the State Government to make arrangements to pay the fees of the petitioners.
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