HC allowed medicos to pay half the fees

HC allowed medicos to pay half the fees

Chalimeda Ananda Rao Institute of Medical Sciences Karimnagar, MNR Medical College Kukatpally, Medicity Institute of Medical Sciences Medchal and MNR Dental College Sangareddy approached the apex court, challenging the high court’s ruling.

 Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association and Telangana Junior Doctors Association, which fought the case on behalf of the students in the high court, have already filed caveats before the apex court. Ever since the high court found fault with the fee structure, the state government had remained silent and did not cha llenge the court order while the private medical colleges moved the Supreme Court. 

The state government had even conceded before the high court that fixing the fee was the job of the admission and fee regulatory committee (AFRC) headed by a retired high court judge. The state had erroneously fixed the fee for the 2016-2019 block period even after the job was completed by the AFRC. 

When there was pressure on the AFRC to review and raise the fee structure that was already decided by it for the block period, the committee refused to take a relook at its decision. The HC allowed the students to pay half of the fees and continue their studies. SC junks med colleges’ plea on retaining fee fixed by T govt Hyderabad : The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain petitions filed by four private medical colleges of Telangana seeking retention of the exorbitant PG medical fees fixed by the state government. 

A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and AS Bopanna dismissed the pleas at the threshold stage itself. When counsel for the four colleges requested the bench to permit them to withdraw their petitions so that they could file a review petition before the Telangana HC, the bench dismissed all the four pleas as withdrawn. The HC had struck down GOs (Nos. 41 and 43) issued fixing high fees for PG medical courses.