The Black Market of Medical Education

Off lately, in a shocking disclosure, the rates of various private medical colleges for various graduate and post-graduate posts for the year 2016 are doing rounds on social media especially Whatsapp. Although the source of the posts could not be verified, the content itself points out towards the growing corruption and existence of rising capitation fee in private medical colleges of the country.

For MBBS courses, the capitation fee has been rumoured to start from 25 lacks and even going upto 80 lacks in some prominent private colleges. For Post graduate courses, the figures that are making rounds show Clinical Courses being the most expensive with a minimum capitation fee of at least Rs 1 Crore and going upto even Rs 3 Crore in some places. The include courses of Medicine, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics. Apparently, if these sources are to be believed, MD Radiology is the most sought after course, with highest capitation fee across places. Not only this, this amount has got nothing to do with the per year fees, which would be additionally charged by college

Medical Council of India as well as the government has, in the past, made it amply clear that no private medical college will charge any capitation fee from the students. Yet, unfortunately, this capitation fee is charged because of the fact that medical colleges to conduct their own exams, rumoured to be fake and have therefore become a weil of inducting those students who are able to AFFORD the capitation fee.