Chintpurni students shifted to 8 colleges

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, December 18

As many as 249 MBBS students of Chintpurni Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), Pathankot, were today shifted to eight medical colleges in the state, over three months after the Punjab and Haryana High Court had ordered the Punjab Government to do the needful.

A counselling session for 101 students of the 2014 batch and 148 of the 2016 batch was conducted by Baba Farid University of Health Science (BFUHS) here.

While 166 of these students have been sent to three government colleges (Amritsar, Patiala and Faridkot), 83 have been shifted to five private medical colleges – DMC, CMC (both in Ludhiana); PIMS, Jalandhar; Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Amritsar; and Adesh Medical College, Bathinda. The shifting has been done as per the merit and rank of these students in PMET-2014 and PMET-2016.

The students of the 2014 batch will pay Rs 26,500 per annum as tuition fee for their remaining course period in three government colleges. Those from the 2016 batch have to pay pro rata (proportionate fee for the remaining period of the course) at the rate of Rs 4.40 lakh for the full course in government colleges, Rs 13.43 lakh for government quota seats in private colleges, Rs 40.39 lakh for management quota seats and $1.10 lakh for NRI quota seats.