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Thursday, Jun 24, 2004

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Panel seeks court's nod on fee structure

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JUNE 23. The Committee for Fixation of Fee Structure of Private Professional Colleges headed by the retired High Court judge, A.B. Murgod, today filed in the Karnataka High Court the revised and re-fixed fee structure (already reported in these columns) of seven medical and dental colleges offering postgraduate courses.

In its affidavit, the committee urged the court to permit it to modify its earlier fee structure placed before the court on May 24. It also moved the court for implementation of the revised fee structure from July 18, 2004 in the interests of justice and equity.

The committee has reduced the fees for all PG courses (clinical, para-clinical, and pre-clinical).

The colleges whose fees have been fixed are: BLDE's B.M. Patil Medical College, Bijapur; JSS Medical College, Mysore; M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore; JSS Dental College, Mysore; A.B. Shetty Memorial Dental College, Mangalore; and R.V. Dental College, Bangalore.

The committee said it had called for proposals from all private unaided colleges on the fee structure. However, the colleges did not send the information on time. The committee, therefore, extended the time till April 15. Some of the colleges did not send information even then.

The Government requested the committee to fix a tentative fee structure as April 30 was the last date for admission of students to PG and diploma in medical and dental courses. On April 14, the committee fixed a tentative fee structure. The Government notified this on April 16.

Some colleges challenged the Government notification. Meanwhile, the committee fixed sittings from April 28 to hear the colleges. It held 38 sittings between April 28 and July 20. It, however, found that most of the colleges were not ready with the information and documents to be filed for increasing the fees. The committee approached the High Court and sought extension of time to fix the fee structure. On May 20, the court directed the committee to file an affidavit on the fee structure in respect of seven colleges.

On May 24, the committee filed a compliance report in the High Court. It said it was unable to work out the fee structure of seven colleges in three days. It realised that the tentative fee structure for PG dental and medical courses given to the court was on the higher side when it examined the cases of 25 other colleges.

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