Private medical college violates HC order, students send notice
Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com
Puducherry:24.01.2019
Eight postgraduate medical students of a medical college run by a deemed university in the Union territory have sent a contempt of court notice to the college chairman for pressurizing to pay fees higher than that stipulated by a committee constituted by the Puducherry government.
The students’ counsel V B R Menon has served the notice dated January 22 to Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (MGMC & RI) chairman M K Rajagopalan and institute dean M Ravishankar. The Madras high court on May 3 last year passed an interim order directing Rajagopalan not to pressurize the students to pay fees over and above that fixed by the committee.
“Even though the writ petition was listed for hearing on various dates thereafter, it had to be adjourned each time due to the inability by the fees committee to fix the annual fees from the academic year 2017-18 onwards because of the legal hurdles created by you (Rajagopalan) through various devious and mischievous means, for which the petitioners are in no way responsible,” Menon said.
He also pointed out that the Madras high court on September 20 had extended the interim order until further orders.
He charged that the college management prevented the eight students from attending the classes from January 21 and the management’s action clearly amounted to ‘pressurizing and coercing’ the students to meet their ‘unjust and illegal’ demands for immediate payments of annual fees of ₹48 lakh, which was arbitrarily fixed by the management.
Menon said the students proposed to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Rajagopalan and Ravishankar for the willful and deliberate disobedience of the court’s order unless the two immediately withdrew their contemptuous actions and allowed the students to the classes and clinics.
There have been widespread complaints of deemed universities charging exorbitant fees (more than ₹45 lakh per annum) for postgraduate medical courses. The institutions have been admitting students with poor National eligibility cum entrance test (Neet) score, who are willing to pay exorbitant fees, overlooking meritorious students with better Neet score who couldn’t afford to pay exorbitant fees.
Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com
Puducherry:24.01.2019
Eight postgraduate medical students of a medical college run by a deemed university in the Union territory have sent a contempt of court notice to the college chairman for pressurizing to pay fees higher than that stipulated by a committee constituted by the Puducherry government.
The students’ counsel V B R Menon has served the notice dated January 22 to Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (MGMC & RI) chairman M K Rajagopalan and institute dean M Ravishankar. The Madras high court on May 3 last year passed an interim order directing Rajagopalan not to pressurize the students to pay fees over and above that fixed by the committee.
“Even though the writ petition was listed for hearing on various dates thereafter, it had to be adjourned each time due to the inability by the fees committee to fix the annual fees from the academic year 2017-18 onwards because of the legal hurdles created by you (Rajagopalan) through various devious and mischievous means, for which the petitioners are in no way responsible,” Menon said.
He also pointed out that the Madras high court on September 20 had extended the interim order until further orders.
He charged that the college management prevented the eight students from attending the classes from January 21 and the management’s action clearly amounted to ‘pressurizing and coercing’ the students to meet their ‘unjust and illegal’ demands for immediate payments of annual fees of ₹48 lakh, which was arbitrarily fixed by the management.
Menon said the students proposed to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Rajagopalan and Ravishankar for the willful and deliberate disobedience of the court’s order unless the two immediately withdrew their contemptuous actions and allowed the students to the classes and clinics.
There have been widespread complaints of deemed universities charging exorbitant fees (more than ₹45 lakh per annum) for postgraduate medical courses. The institutions have been admitting students with poor National eligibility cum entrance test (Neet) score, who are willing to pay exorbitant fees, overlooking meritorious students with better Neet score who couldn’t afford to pay exorbitant fees.
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