Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Pondy hikes MBBS fee in govt college steeply

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Puducherry: 21.05.2018

The Puducherry government has steeply hiked the fees for MBBS programme in the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute (IGMC & RI) from the academic year 2018-19, much to the distress of the students and parents.

A committee constituted by Perunthalaivar Kamaraj Medical College Society, which manages the government college, has hiked annual fees from ₹75,000 to ₹1.37 lakh for the first year MBBS, from ₹52,500 to ₹1,00,500 for the second year and from ₹35,000 to ₹67,000 for the third and fourth years. The fee for the additional batches has been hiked from ₹17,500 to ₹33,500. The committee has also decided to start collecting academic fees (₹10,000 per semester). The revised fees will be utilised for training of students and research projects among other expenses, according to the minutes of the committee meeting.

Various parents, students and teachers’ forums slammed the Union territory government for the move

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