Students quitting private MBBS seats to pay fine up to Rs 10 lakh

TNN | Updated: Jun 16, 2018, 08:50 IST


 

CHENNAI: The state selection committee has announced that students who join self-financing medical colleges will have to pay Rs 10 lakh as penalty if they quit the course after August 19.

Those quitting between August 2 and 19 will have to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh.

The committee is planning to wrap up two rounds of counselling by July 21 and start mop-up counselling for all-India quota seats returned by DGHS after July 25. Courses in colleges will begin on August 1 and admissions will close on August 18.

“We want to ensure that students don’t opt out of the course after seeking admissions either because they don’t have the money or because they get admission into other courses or colleges,” said selection committee secretary G Selvarajan.

On Friday, the sale of applications for MBBS/ BDS courses touched 36,776 including 19,707 forms for admission to government colleges and 12,767 for admission to self-financing colleges under the government quota. So far 4,302 applications were given free of cost to students from the SC/ST community. The sale of applications will continue till June 18 and the last day to turn-in the filled up forms will be June 19.