Thursday, August 8, 2019

Colleges find new ways to monetise MBBS seats
Collect ‘Advance’ Of ₹40 Lakh For Vacant Seats


TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:08.08.2019

Several deemed universities and self-financing colleges have started registering aspiring MBBS students for an “advance fee” of up to ₹40 lakh promising them a seat if the selection committees return vacant seats two days before the admission deadline.

Some 314 seats, including 175 NRI seats, in deemed universities and more than 250 NRI seats in self-financing colleges are still vacant. Agents have been telling parents that many students may not take NRI seats as the fee structure is very high.

The centre’s medical counselling committee will return the seats to deemed universities on August 27 for mop-up counselling. “We are told that for those registering at the college now, the management will convert NRI seats to management seats,” said R Dharamarajan, whose nephew is awaiting admission.

The annual fee for NRI quota seats in a deemed university is between $60,000 (₹42 lakh) and $220,000 (1.5crore) against ₹24 lakh for a management quota seat.

Parents are being asked to pay “an advance” as cash and demand draft or completely as cash and write their names in a register. If the admission is not available, the money will be returned. “If not, the demand draft will be used as first year fee and what is paid in cash will remain as capitation,” said another parent.

Agents TOI spoke to claim they can block seats for colleges across TN, Puducherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Senior counsellors and experts in medical education say universities that do not convert NRI seats into management or general quota seats during mop-up rounds should not be allowed to do so during their in-house counselling. “It’s a loophole that is being misused and it should be plugged,” said Ganesh Kumar, counsellor and NEET tutor.

Worse, NRI students and parents who are awaiting admissions in self-financing colleges in the state are still clueless about the dates of counselling. State selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan said “We will be completing all admissions before the end of August.”




The annual fee for NRI quota seats in a deemed university is between $60,000 (₹42 lakh) and $220,000 (1.5crore) against ₹24 lakh for a management quota seat

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