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Relief to postgraduate medical students

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Court directs college managements not to collect excess fees

BANGALORE: More than one hundred postgraduate medical students from several private medical colleges in the State heaved a sigh of relief when the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the college managements not to collect fees in excess of what had been fixed by then Fee Fixation Committee.

The students had urged the court to direct the colleges in which they were studying PG courses to charge fees as fixed by the erstwhile Fee Fixation Committee headed by retired High Court Judge, Rangavittalachar.

Dr. Pavan T. Sugoor, Dr. Karthik Kaushik and 35 other students of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore said they had joined PG courses through Consortium of Medical and Engineering Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) for MD and MS courses.

They said the college had charged them fees much in excess of what had been fixed by the Fee Committee.

They sought a direction to the college not to charge more than Rs. 3.76 lakh for degree courses in 2007-08 and 2008-09 and Rs. 2.82 lakh for diploma courses.

They said last year they had paid Rs. 4.59 lakh for degree and Rs. 3.42 lakh for diploma courses.

They urged the court to ensure that the managements adjusted the excess money collected last year towards this year's fees and also collect fees as fixed by the committee.

A Division Bench comprising Justice Ajit Gunjal and Justice Jawad Rahim, in an interim order, directed the college to collect fees as fixed by the committee.

Another petition

In another petition, the same Bench in an interim order directed the Adichunchangiri Institute of Medical Sciences to collect Rs. 2.40 lakh for postgraduate degree and Rs. 1.80 lakh for diploma courses for 2007-08 and 2008-09.

The Bench passed the interim order on petitions by Dr. Sangamesh S. Kolliyavar and eleven others who said that the college had collected Rs. 4.56 lakh for degree and Rs. 3.6 lakh for diploma courses as against a lesser fee fixed by the committee.

In yet another petition, Dr. Nishant P. Panegoan and 40 others, all postgraduate students of HKES' M.R. Medical College, Gulbarga, have sought a direction to the management to collect Rs. 2.60 lakh for PG clinical degree, Rs. 1.95 lakh for PG diploma and Rs. 65,000 for para-clinical as against Rs. 4.56 lakh, Rs. 3.42 lakh and Rs. 1.14 lakh respectively.

The Bench directed the college to collect fees as fixed by the committee.

In the fourth petition, Dr. Soumya N., and seven others of Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore, had urged the court to ensure that the college collects Rs. 3.02 lakh for degree, Rs. 2.26 lakh for diploma and Rs. 75,000 for para-clinical courses.

The Bench allowed their interim prayer.

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