MBBS seat at Private Medical College in Bengal to cost around Rs 1 crore
Kolkata: Medical education in the private medical colleges in Bengal is getting costlier day by day as it is being estimated that from now on, a candidate will have to pay around Rs one crore for getting admitted to the undergraduate medical course in the academic session 2021-2022.
This fee structure is definitely in striking contrast to the Government medical colleges, which charge hardly Rs 75,000 (Rs 6,000 per semester) for the whole MBBS course comprising of nine semesters.
The confirmation regarding this fee hike came from the memorandums issued by the State Health Department to the director of medical education (DME) for five private medical colleges, adds The Statesman.
In those memorandums dated February 3, 2022, there had been a sharp hike in the course fees for the new students.
The fees for the private medical colleges get approved by a committee headed by a retired judge of the High Court. This committee decides the fee structure after taking note of the applications made by each of the institutes seeking revisions of fee under the state and management quotas.
Such a fee regulatory committee also includes officials of both health and higher education departments as its members.
As per the latest media report by The Statesman, as per the memorandums signed by a special secretary in the health department at Swasthya Bhaban, studying MBBS would cost a first year MBBS student under the management quota around Rs Rs 10,94,000 (tuition fee) per semester excluding onetime admission fee Rs 50,000 at institutes such as Sri Ram Krishna Institute of Medical Science (SRIMS) and Sanaka Hospital in Durgapur.
Clearly, if the fees for all the semesters are taken into account, the total course fee would be more than Rs one crore.
The daily adds that the fees for MBBS seats in management quota seats are Rs 9 lakh per semester in institutes like Gouri Devi Institute of Medical Science and Hospital, in Durgapur, Jagannath Institute of Medical Science Hospital (JIMSH) in Budge Budge, Shantiniketan Medical College and ICARE Institute of Medical Science and Research (IIMSAR), Haldia.
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On the other hand, the MBBS students need to pay Rs 2,75,000 per semester for the state quota seats in the private medical colleges.
It should be mentioned in this context that recently the apex medical regulator, the National Medical Commission has clarified that the fees of 50 per cent seats in the private medical colleges would be at par with government medical colleges of that particular State/UT.
"After extensive consultations, it has been decided that the fee of the 50 per cent seats in the private medical colleges and deemed universities should be at par with the fee in the government medical colleges of that particular State and UT. The benefit of this fee structure would be first made available to those candidates who have availed government quota seats, but are limited to the extent of 50 per cent of the total sanctioned strength of the respective medical college/deemed university," NMC had mentioned in the notification.
