Non-payment of stipend: PG medical students approach Kerala HC against self-fin. colleges
TNN | Jun 18, 2018, 10.43 PM IST
KOCHI: Close to 150 post-graduate (PG) dental students have approached the Kerala High Court questioning non-payment of stipend by self-financing medical colleges, at par with government colleges. PG students at government medical colleges are being paid a monthly stipend of Rs 43,000.
According to the petition filed through advocate TRS Kumar, there are 16 self-financing dental colleges conducting PG courses in Kerala but these colleges are not paying monthly stipend to students despite making the students work in their hospitals. The students have to work more than 10 hours a day but are not provided with any remuneration as stipulated by authorities, it is alleged.
It was in May 2016 that Dental Council of India fixed the monthly stipend at Rs43,000 for the first year, Rs44,000 for the second year, and Rs45,000 for the final year. While the PG students who joined for courses at government medical colleges have been receiving their stipends monthly, students of self-financing medical colleges are being denied the same, the petitioner have contended.
From a yearly fee of Rs5 lakh in 2016, it was raised to Rs8.5 lakh in 2017, though the fee for the same course in neighbouring states is lesser. Fee was so fixed by the admission supervisory committee without taking into consideration the actual expenditure of the college, the petition said.
Along with the petition, the students have submitted a statement of accounts prepared on the basis of actual expenses for students. As per the statement, the monthly profit of a self-financing college is Rs99,04,876.
TNN | Jun 18, 2018, 10.43 PM IST
KOCHI: Close to 150 post-graduate (PG) dental students have approached the Kerala High Court questioning non-payment of stipend by self-financing medical colleges, at par with government colleges. PG students at government medical colleges are being paid a monthly stipend of Rs 43,000.
According to the petition filed through advocate TRS Kumar, there are 16 self-financing dental colleges conducting PG courses in Kerala but these colleges are not paying monthly stipend to students despite making the students work in their hospitals. The students have to work more than 10 hours a day but are not provided with any remuneration as stipulated by authorities, it is alleged.
It was in May 2016 that Dental Council of India fixed the monthly stipend at Rs43,000 for the first year, Rs44,000 for the second year, and Rs45,000 for the final year. While the PG students who joined for courses at government medical colleges have been receiving their stipends monthly, students of self-financing medical colleges are being denied the same, the petitioner have contended.
From a yearly fee of Rs5 lakh in 2016, it was raised to Rs8.5 lakh in 2017, though the fee for the same course in neighbouring states is lesser. Fee was so fixed by the admission supervisory committee without taking into consideration the actual expenditure of the college, the petition said.
Along with the petition, the students have submitted a statement of accounts prepared on the basis of actual expenses for students. As per the statement, the monthly profit of a self-financing college is Rs99,04,876.
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