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Hike in MBBS fee condemned

KOCHI: Fiat Justicia, a social and environmental initiative, has alleged that the fee regulatory committee for professional colleges is supporting the commercial exploitation of higher education by hiking the annual tuition fee for MBBS courses in self-financing colleges in the State.

M.L. George, director of the organisation, said in a release here on Saturday that the previous fee regulatory committee had fixed the fee at Rs.1.13 lakh. It had now gone up to Rs.2.73 lakh, he said.

Expenses

In response to an application filed under the Right to Information Act, the committee had informed Mr. George that the government had spent Rs.15.28 lakh (2006-07); Rs.21.48 lakh (2007-08); and Rs.22.57 lakh (2008-09) towards the functioning of the fee regulatory committee headed by P.A. Mohammed, former judge of the Kerala High Court.

Fees

The committee informed that the fee proposed by the previous committee from 2004-2007 was Rs.1.13 lakh for MBBS; Rs.76,000 for BDS; Rs.46,000 for B.Sc. Nursing; Rs.35,000 for B.Pharm.; Rs.45,000 for BAMS; Rs.40,500 for BHMS; and Rs.38,700 for engineering programmes.

It said there were 11 medical colleges; 13 dental colleges; 21 B.Pharm. colleges; seven BAMS colleges; 54 B.Sc. nursing colleges and 49 engineering colleges in the self-financing sector in the State.

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