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Separate fee structure for unaided medical colleges

By K. Ramachandran

CHENNAI March 5 . The Government will announce in the next few days a separate fee structure for unaided medical and para-medical colleges. Sources in the Health Department said today the policy announced on Tuesday for admissions to professional colleges (the percentage of seats under the single window system and the method of filling the seats) would hold good for unaided medical and para-medical colleges too.

However, it is felt, the fee structure will have to be different and the government "advice" to unaided engineering colleges to fix the annual fee at Rs. 30,000, cannot be applied to these institutions. Of the 207 medical and para-medical institutions in Tamil Nadu, 184 are unaided colleges, which even now follow a separate fee structure.

In the unaided sector, there are four medical colleges with 175 seats, 11 dental colleges (594 seats); 47 physiotherapy (BPT) colleges (1,609 seats); 35 pharmacy colleges (1,343 seats); seven nursing colleges (1,230 seats) and seven colleges offering an occupational therapy (BOT) course with 193 seats.

Till last year, the fee for the unaided colleges was: MBBS: Rs. 10,000 for a free seat and Rs. 95,000 for a payment seat; BDS — Rs. 7,500 and 70,000; and B.Pharm — Rs. 5,000 and 31,000. For B.Sc (Nursing), BPT and BOT, the fee was Rs. 6,000 and 34,000.

Senior officials in the Health department and the Directorate of Medical Education today discussed the issues with the Health and Education Minister, S. Semmalai.

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