EWS Students secure Management, NRI quota PG Medical Seats with Crores of course fee, candidates demand inquiry
New Delhi: Despite belonging to the economically weaker section, more than 140 such candidates have been admitted to postgraduate medical courses in clinical specialties from the management and NRI quotas of private medical colleges for which they will have to pay a tuition fee ranging from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 90 lakh per annum, TOI has reported.
Therefore, these EWS candidates, belonging to families with an annual income of less than Rs 8 lakh, will have to pay more than a crore for a three-year postgraduate course.
Many aspirants are now questioning this revelation, as they doubt the eligibility of these candidates to secure an EWS certificate when they could afford to pay such a hefty amount as their PG medical course fee.
More than 24,600 PG medical seats were allotted in the first round announced on November 20. Among these 135 management quota seats in the private medical colleges and 8 NRI seats were allotted to candidates registered as EWS.
As per the latest media report by the Times of India, an EWS candidate has been allotted an MS Orthopaedics seat in the management quota of Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences in Puducherry. The tuition fee for the entire course is up to Rs 1.6 crore. Another EWS candidate secured admission to an MD Radiology seat under the NRI quota in Rajrajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Mysore and will have to pay an annual fee of Rs 91 lakh. Therefore, the candidate will have to pay Rs 2.7 crore as the entire course fee.
Meanwhile, allegations are being by several MBBS graduates, who appeared in the NEET-PG 2024 exam, claiming that there was a huge increase in the candidates using fake EWS certificates. They are not demanding a Government inquiry into the matter.
Commenting on the matter, a NEET-PG aspirant told TOI, "It’s frustrating to see EWS candidates have taken admission in colleges that charge fees in crores. Govt must cancel their seats."
