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Six colleges to sign pact with government

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Six private self-financing medical colleges on Monday agreed to enter into a seat-fees pact with the State government even as the fee regulatory committee headed by P. A. Mohammed ‘temporarily’ withdrew its three-tier grading of self-financing engineering colleges.

After talks between Education Minister M.A. Baby and representatives of Karuna Medical College, Gokulam Medical College, SUT Medical College, Sam Somervel Medical College, Karakkonam; MES Medical College, Kuttippuram and the Kannur Medical College, it was decided that the pact will be signed on June 14.

Accordingly, these colleges will charge up to Rs.20,000 as fee and up to Rs.2.5 lakh as refundable deposit for the merit seats. For management seats the corresponding figures would be Rs.5.5 lakh and Rs.5 lakh and for the NRI seats, Rs.9 lakh and Rs.10 lakh. On June 13 the association of the private self-financing medical colleges will meet to ratify these fees.

It was also decided that admissions will be held to these colleges only after the Supreme Court ratifies the terms and conditions of the management-government pact. A separate entrance examination will be conducted for admissions to the management seats (50 per cent) in these colleges. The test will be held under the supervision of the P.A. Mohammed Committee and admissions will be on the basis of a separate rank list. In the case of the MES College and the one at Karakkonam — which have minority status — admissions to 20 per cent of the merit seats will be for candidates from the community that runs the colleges. Admissions will be from the rank list published by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations and on the basis of ‘inter se’ merit.

The decision to temporarily withdraw the three-tier grading of self-financing engineering colleges was taken at a sitting of the P. A. Mohammed committee here on Monday.

It was decided that the fee for all categories of seats in private self-financing engineering colleges would be Rs.40,000 and that Rs.75,000 would be collected as refundable deposit.

Though the Committee will not grade the colleges now, it will study infrastructure facilities provided by colleges and their audit reports. On the basis of this, the Committee will decide whether a college has overcharged students. If so, the institution will have to refund the excess amount.

The president of the association of self-financing engineering colleges G.P.C. Nayar welcomed the Committee’s decision. “We are happy that the committee has withdrawn its unscientific grading. On Tuesday we will discuss with the government and arrive at a mutually agreeable fee structure,” he said.

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