‘EWS’ students get medical PG seats with fees running in crores
FAKEEWS CERTS? Students Ask How They Can Afford It If Their Income Is What they Claim
Rema.nagarajan@timesofindia.com 29.11.2024
Over 140 candidates belonging to the economically weaker section (EWS, annual family income less than ₹8 lakh) have chosen postgraduate seats in clinical specialties from the management and NRI quotas of private medical colleges for which tuition fees alone range from ₹25 lakh to over ₹90 lakh per annum. This has led to many aspirants questioning how these candidates managed to get the EWS certificate if they could afford to pay over a crore for a three-year postgraduate course.
The first round of allotment of postgraduate seats in medical colleges was announced on Nov 20. Out of more than 24,600 seats allotted in the first round, 135 seats from the management quota in private medical colleges have been allotted to candidates who registered as EWS. Eight NRI seats have also been allotted to EWS candidates.
For instance, an MS Orthopaedics seat in the management quota of Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical sciences in Puducherry, for which the tuition fee alone comes up to ₹1.6 crore for the entire course has been allotted to an EWS candidate. Similarly, an EWS candidate has got an MD Radiology seat from the NRI quota in Rajarajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Mysore. The annual fees for this seat are ₹91 lakh. Many MBBS graduates who appeared for the NEET PG exam asserted that there was a huge increase in candidates using fake EWS certificates and demanded that the govt initiate an enquiry.
“Seeing the counselling allotment results, it’s quite frustrating that EWS candidates have taken admission in colleges that charge fees in crores for three years. As a NEET PG aspirant, this is disheartening. How can someone from the EWS category pay this much as fees? How is the govt issuing these EWS certificates? The govt must cancel the seats of these aspirants,” said a NEET PG aspirant.
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