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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
The Government, which was until now awaiting an announcement from the Medical and Dental Council of India on the fee structure and a deadline for ending of admissions, has now decided to go ahead with the revision of the fee structure. "We feel we need not wait for the MCI or any other body to announce the fee structure. Once we arrive on the proportion of seats to be offered, the policy for medical and paramedical admissions can be announced," a top administrator said. In the engineering education sector, the Government had announced that unaided non-minority institutions could fill 50 per cent of the seats on their own and minority institutions 70 per cent of the seats. The private engineering managements had agreed to abide by the Government proposal and some have surrendered even a part of the management quota for single window admission. But, the medical education scenario is different and the unaided institutions will demand that they be allowed to fill a substantial portion of the sanctioned strength on their own. However, the Government is of the view that the unaided medical and paramedical colleges could be allowed to fill 60-70 per cent seats as `management quota' and the rest be pooled in for single window admissions. The administrators want to get a final legal opinion before taking a decision. Enquiries with the Medical Education department show that the Union Health Ministry, along with the Dental and Medical Councils of India, was working on setting a deadline of September 30 for ending admissions. A meeting of Secretaries and bureaucrats from the States was held in March first week, but ended without any final decision. The thinking here seems to be that the fee structure of Rs. 30,000 a year announced for engineering college cannot be applied to unaided medical and paramedical colleges. Tamil Nadu has 207 medical and paramedical institutions, of which 184 are unaided colleges. In the unaided sector, the State has four medical colleges with 175 seats, 11 dental colleges (594 seats); 47 physiotherapy (B.P.T) colleges (1,609 seats); 35 pharmacy colleges (1,343 seats); seven nursing colleges (1,230 seats) and seven colleges offering occupational therapy (B.O.T) course with 193 seats. At present, the fee structure for the unaided colleges is: MBBS - Rs. 10,000 (free seat) and Rs. 95,000 (payment seat), BDS - Rs.7,500 and Rs. 70,000, B. Pharm - Rs. 5,000 and Rs.31,000; and for B.Sc (Nursing), B.P.T and B.O.T - Rs. 6,000 and Rs. 34,000. This fee structure has remained unchanged for several years, the college managements say. But it is a fact that it is implemented more in the breach. This year, two unaided dental colleges have been given deemed university status and they would not come under the single window admissions.
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