No More penalty for leaving MBBS, BDS seats midway in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: Bringing good news to the MBBS and BDS students in Uttar Pradesh, the State Government has abolished the fine imposed on students who leave their medical education course midway.

Although the Government has done away with the seat-leaving monetary penalty, the provision of debarring such students from taking admission to a medical education course the next year remains in place.

Previously, any undergraduate medical or dental students pursuing their medical education in a government medical college had to pay Rs 1 lakh fine to a government college. In the case of self-financing medical colleges, the candidates had to pay the entire five-year course fee, as per the provision under the "seat-leaving bond". Meanwhile, the amount of penalty for the candidates leaving a postgraduate medical seat in the government sector was Rs 5 lakh.

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As per the latest media report by Hindustan Times, the State has now scrapped the provision of monetary penalty for the MBBS or BDS students for leaving their seats midway.

Commenting on the matter, the Director General of Medical Education, Kinjal Singh told HT, "Students who leave the MBBS course are themselves under too much pressure as they are leaving a bright career. They do it as a last option and have genuine reasons, including finance. In such a situation, the government thought it is not appropriate to take money from them as fine, hence the financial part of the penalty has been abolished. Uttar Pradesh is the second state after Madhya Pradesh to do so in the country."