DMC moves court over fixed MBBS fee

Balwant Garg

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Tribune News Service

Faridkot, July 25

Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, challenging the fee structure for MBBS course fixed by the government. The DMC has asked students to submit an undertaking that they will pay the difference of the fee subject to the decision of the High Court.

The DMC offers 100 MBBS seats. Of these, 50 are under government quota and the state has fixed Rs 13.43 lakh as full course tuition fee. Of the remaining 50 seats, 35 are under management quota for which Rs 40.29 lakh tuition fee is charged and 15 NRI seats where the fee is $1.10 lakh.

Claiming to be autonomous bodies, Adesh Medical College, Bathinda, and SGPC-owned Sri Guru Ram Das Medical College, Amritsar, charge over Rs 50 lakh and Rs 46 lakh, respectively. Both these colleges do not offer any government quota seats. The DMC also wants to have its say in the matter, said a senior functionary of the college management on the condition of anonymity.

In a complaint to the DMERand BFUHS, the parents of many students today said the development had landed them in a difficult situation. They said if a student got a seat in the DMC as per his/her first preference and the college increased the tuition fee later, they would be in trouble.

They claimed that as per the counselling rules, a candidate getting admission as per his/her first preferred could not participate in the second round of counselling.

Either the DMC should not be taking this undertaking of paying increased fee at this stage or the BFUHS should reopen the choice of appearing in counselling again so that candidates could get a chance to change their first preference from the DMC to any other medical college of their interest, they demanded.

Dr Raj Bahadur, vice chancellor, BFUHS, said the university was yet to get a complaint in this regard.

It’s unfair: Aspirants 

• Candidates say if they get a seat in the DMC and later the college increases the tuition fee, they would be in trouble.
• As per rules, a candidate getting admission as per his first preference could not participate in the second round of counselling