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Tamil Nadu: Government asks private medical colleges to slash fees for 50% seats

Tamil Nadu: Government asks private medical colleges to slash fees for 50% seats

TNN | Jul 26, 2022, 03.13 AM IST

CHENNAI: The state health department has told self-financing medical colleges and deemed universities to charge fees on a par with government colleges for 50% of the seats. This means they should charge ₹13,610 a year, including a tuition fee of ₹4,000, instead of ₹25 lakh. The fee fixation committee will fix fees for the remaining seats for the upcoming academic year.

After the National Medical Commission sent guidelines in February, state health secretary P Senthil Kumar had conveyed this to the private institutions. “The colleges said they have moved court but, in the meanwhile, we have sent a letter to the fee fixation committee,” he said.

Tamil Nadu has 10,725 MBBS seats in 70 medical colleges — 38 government, 19 self-financing colleges and 13 deemed universities. The state has the most government colleges, which charge one of the lowest fees.

Until now admissions to deemed universities were merit-based allotments by the directorate-general of health services. But these institutions don’t come under the fee fixation committee, unlike the self-financing medical colleges. Admission to self-financing colleges is done by the state selection committee. The fee fixation committee fixes fees for students joining under government, management, and NRI quotas and lapsed NRI seats.

Parents and students say that if this order is implemented it will reflect the spirit of merit for which NEET was proposed. “Students with high scores will have seats at a cost they can afford in colleges of their choice. Colleges across the state too will have a good number of meritorious students,” said Sharmila R, whose daughter is waiting for an MBBS seat this year.

However, colleges say that their overheads are too high. “NMC demands on infrastructure and human resources are expensive. Tuition fee is one of the important sources of income for teaching hospitals. If they cut down on fees, it will affect quality,” said one of the senior administrators of a new medical college.

Most students are forced to choose some colleges — government or self-financing — only because they can’t afford to pay fees in some deemed universities. “Besides offering seats on a par with government colleges, the fee for the remaining seats will be fixed by a committee and not by an ad hoc university committee,” said Madhanagopal S, who coaches and counsels students for medical admissions.

NTA finds 10 cases of unfair means adopted by NEET candidates

 NTA finds 10 cases of unfair means adopted by NEET candidates 

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com 

22.07.2022

New Delhi : The National Testing Agency (NTA) has identified at least 10 cases of unfair means involving smuggling of electronic devices into the exam halls by candidates during the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) held on July 17. There were other instances where candidates were detected with electronic devices during frisking and were allowed to take the test only after giving an undertaking and confiscation of the gadgets.

 A couple of cases of attempted impersonation have also come to light where the candidates left the centres when questioned, NTA sources said. As first reported by TOIin June 2019, security of the question papers is another issue which NTA has been ensuring with the use of remote locking system where the boxes are opened at the designated centres just 15 minutes before the exam via remote controls from the centralised control system which generates unique passwords for each lock. As per the internal reports coming from various centres, accessed by TOI, of the 10 cases on unfair means verified so far, one of the candidates was caught accessing amobile phone inside the hall at 5pm (the exam ended at 5:20pm). 

“The candidate’s cellphone was confiscated,” said a senior NTA official. In another case, a microchip was found on a candidate, which was confiscated. “In one case, during frisking there was a beep in the scanner indicating presence of metal. The female candidate suddenly said she was not feeling well and needed to use the wash room. When she returned and underwent the frisking, the scanner cleared her. Later, we found a mobile phone in the wash room, ” said the official. NTA sees all this as a systemic attack to breach the high stakes exam. An expert said: 

“There is no   easy way out as there have been instances of such types of devices being used. Organised groups are working to jeopardise the exams. ” All 7 accused get bail in frisking row A first-class judicial magistrate court here granted bail to all the seven people arrested for allegedly forcing girl students to remove their innerwear before appearing for the NEET exam at a centre in Kerala’s Kollam. 

Earlier on the day, police had arrested Priji Kurian Issac, a professor of Marthoma Institute of Information and Technology, where the exam was held and J Shamnad, an assistant professor, for their alleged role in the incident. 

With this, the total number of people arrested rose to seven Priji was in charge of conducting the exam at the institute and Shamnad was appointed by NTA as NEET observer at the centre. TNN

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