CHENNAI: The cost of medical courses offered in deemed universities of
Tamil Nadu is set to come down by at least Rs 50 lakh, with the
Madras high court fixing Rs 13 lakh as the annual fee for these institutions.
The order is an interim measure till a final decision is taken by the fee fixation committee. However, since the ongoing rate is anywhere between Rs 21 lakh and Rs 22.5 lakh per annum, the overall saving for parents is expected to be about Rs 50 lakh.
“Fees varying between Rs 25 and Rs 35 lakh per annum is high and the fee committee constituted by UGC ought to make an in-depth study and recommend the fees to be collected by institutions... Fees shall be regulated and streamlined considering all relevant factors. The UGC undertakes to constitute a committee forthwith by June 30… (which) shall positively submit its report/recommendation within a period of six weeks,” said the first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice P T Asha on Friday, after the University Grants Commission (UGC) informed the HC that the committee had earlier fixed Rs 11.5 lakh as the fee for management quota seats in colleges under deemed universities.
The maximum annual fee for a first-year Indian student of an undergraduate
MBBS course in a private medical college in Karnataka cannot exceed Rs 6.83 lakh per year, while it’ll be not more Rs 4.63 lakh for her dental counterpart.
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