HYDERABAD: The Telangana government on Monday almost doubled the fees of postgraduate medical courses in private colleges to Rs 7 lakh per annum from Rs 3.8 lakh a year, inviting sharp criticism from doctors.
The April 14 GO on fee fixation was made public on Monday, two days before the web counselling for 2020-2023 period begins for over 600 seats across Telangana.
The fee was fixed based on the recommendations of the Telangana Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee and will be applicable to all private unaided non-minority and minority postgraduate medical/dental professional institutes in the state, the GO said.
For convenor quota seats (category A), two colleges — Chalmeda Anandrao Institute of Medical Sciences and Deccan College of Medical Sciences — will be allowed to charge Rs 7.75 lakh per annum for clinical degree courses.
Likewise, the tuition fee of seven other colleges was fixed at Rs 7.5 lakh and for five colleges at Rs 7 lakh per annum. For dental courses, the highest fee was fixed at Rs 6 lakh per annum.
Apart from raising the fee, the state has also directed colleges to seek a bank guarantee.
“The managements of the institution may seek bank guarantee for tuition fee chargeable for the next academic year,” reads the GO.
TJUDA calls the move anti-student
The members of the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA) criticised the state for doubling fee, and called the move as anti-student. “This is a strange decision by the government of Telangana, favouring private medical colleges,” said P S Vijayender of TJUDA.
“The state is slowly taking medical education away from middle-class students,” he said.
Commenting on the state’s decision to allow institutes to seek bank guarantee, they questioned how middle-class people will be able to show Rs 14 lakh balance as a guarantee after paying Rs 7 lakh as first-year tuition fee.
TJUDA members said this move would force many students to think twice before choosing private colleges, adding that with hardly two days left to select web options, they can’t even seek judicial help and get a stay on fee hike.
In the state, there are about 1,400 PG medical seats of which nearly half of them are in private colleges.
The April 14 GO on fee fixation was made public on Monday, two days before the web counselling for 2020-2023 period begins for over 600 seats across Telangana.
The fee was fixed based on the recommendations of the Telangana Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee and will be applicable to all private unaided non-minority and minority postgraduate medical/dental professional institutes in the state, the GO said.
For convenor quota seats (category A), two colleges — Chalmeda Anandrao Institute of Medical Sciences and Deccan College of Medical Sciences — will be allowed to charge Rs 7.75 lakh per annum for clinical degree courses.
Likewise, the tuition fee of seven other colleges was fixed at Rs 7.5 lakh and for five colleges at Rs 7 lakh per annum. For dental courses, the highest fee was fixed at Rs 6 lakh per annum.
Apart from raising the fee, the state has also directed colleges to seek a bank guarantee.
“The managements of the institution may seek bank guarantee for tuition fee chargeable for the next academic year,” reads the GO.
TJUDA calls the move anti-student
The members of the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA) criticised the state for doubling fee, and called the move as anti-student. “This is a strange decision by the government of Telangana, favouring private medical colleges,” said P S Vijayender of TJUDA.
“The state is slowly taking medical education away from middle-class students,” he said.
Commenting on the state’s decision to allow institutes to seek bank guarantee, they questioned how middle-class people will be able to show Rs 14 lakh balance as a guarantee after paying Rs 7 lakh as first-year tuition fee.
TJUDA members said this move would force many students to think twice before choosing private colleges, adding that with hardly two days left to select web options, they can’t even seek judicial help and get a stay on fee hike.
In the state, there are about 1,400 PG medical seats of which nearly half of them are in private colleges.
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