The Telangana state government is contemplating to introduce a fee cap on the medical college seats available under the management quota in all the private colleges in the state.
According to senior officials in the medical education department, the state government is likely to fix the fee structure up to Rs.12 lakhs for all management quota medical seats available in the private colleges.
Up till last year, the private managements have filled the medical seats under management quota by selling them to a whooping amount ranging from Rs.40 lakhs to Rs.1 crore depending on the college.
As per the current norms, the state government has allocated 35 per cent of seats under management quota, while remaining 65 per cent is allocated to convener quota available for open counseling to the merit ranking students.
However, from this present academic year, the state government has decided to fill all the seats through open counseling on the basis of merit. Every medical college has a hospital and the state government has asked the private college managements to earn revenue through hospitals and not from medical colleges.
In view of this the state government is planning to introduce cap-fixing on the fee for management quota seats in private medical colleges as it has done in the case of engineering colleges earlier. “To put an end to the ever increasing cost on the medical education, the state government had decided to put a cap on the management quota fee structure from this academic year. Unlike earlier, where the colleges were following arbitrary methods to fill the management quota and ignoring the merit and selling the seats to only those who can pay huge amounts, from this year onwards the state government has decided at least 100 medical seats under management quota purely on merit. As the fixing of cap on fee structure is still under discussion with the private managements, we will soon announce the exact fee structure,” informed Rajeswar Tiwari, Special Chief Secretary, medical and health department, Government of Telangana.
The aspiring medical students have expressed happiness over the government decision to fix a cap on the management quota seats, as irrespective of their economic background the students can get admissions on the merit basis.