Cuddalore: 29.01.2021
Nearly 50 days after students of Rajah Muthiah Medical College Hospital attached to Annamalai University in Chidambaram began their protest demanding the state to reduce fee to bring it on a par with other government medical colleges, TN on Wednesday brought it under the health and family welfare department to treat it as a government medical college for Cuddalore district. TNN
Fresh order to be issued on status of staff, fee structure
The college management had suspended classes and closed hostels from January 21 and told students to vacate the hostels.
Other RMMCH institutions Rani Meyyamma college of nursing and Rajah Muthiah dental college and hospital too were handed over to the department.
The order issued by principal secretary Apoorva said the health and family welfare department will issue a separate order on fee structure, filling up of seats, status of existing staff members and changing the affiliation to Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University from Annamalai University after obtaining concurrence from the state finance department.
Hitherto, the institutes were under the control of TN higher education department. There were 332 teaching faculty,1,426 non-teaching faculty members, and 287 pensioners and family pensioners as on November 30 last year. The students strength for the academic year was 2,293. The value of movable and immovable assets of the institutions spread across 113.21 acres was ₹249.99 crore while liabilities, including salaries, pension, stipend, PF and loans, was ₹840.93 crore.
The protesting students pointed out that RMMCH charged ₹5.6 lakh per annum for MBBS course and ₹9.6 lakh per annum for MD/MS while private unaided self-financing medical colleges charge ₹3.8 lakh per annum for MBBS and ₹3.5 lakh for MD/MS courses.
Similarly, Rajah Muthiah dental college and hospital charged ₹3.5 lakh per annum for BDS course and 7.8 lakh per annum for MDS course whereas private unaided selffinancing medical colleges charge ₹2.5 lakh per annum for both BDS and MDS courses.Other TN government colleges charge₹13,000 per annum for MBBS course, ₹30,000 per annum for MD/ MS and ₹11,610 per annum for BDS and ₹30,000 per annum for MDS.
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