Many pvt Medical Colleges are charging their own exorbitant fee in the name of being attached to Deemed University which was rejected recently by highest court of our country and ordered them to follow fee structure being determined by central and state health education department as Deemed university has no power to decide their own fee.Now,University Grants Commission ( UGS ) has come forward and has made a panel of eminant educationist,doctor,social and financial heavy weights to control it.
"The UGC has constituted a committee to regulate the fees chargeable by self-financed deemed-to-be universities in medical and dental courses in view of the exorbitant fees being charged by them," Satyapal Singh, the minister of state for human resource development (HRD), replied to a written question.The committee consists of R C Deka, former AIIMS director; S K Ray, former additional secretary and financial adviser, HRD Ministry, and a nominee each from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dental Council of India, Medical Council of India (MCI) and HRD Ministry.
Other members include O P Kalra, vice-chancellor Pt B D Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak; Saroj Chooramani Gopal, former VC of King George Medical University, Lucknow; Mahesh Verma, director of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi; Ajay S Chandanwale, dean, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune.
Supreme Court first introduced UG and PG NEET to check black earning of crores by many pvt medical colleges which were opened with only intention to earn crores within few years by investing few crores by taking bribe of 1-4 crores for admitting undergraduate and postgraduate medical students but Colleges have taken shelter of deemed university to earn money,SC rejected it.Medical Colleges admitting students having low ranked students in NEET by admitting them with black of 15-30 crores to fillup seats in mop round or admitting brilliant students first and then releasing them or getting order from state high court for continuing admission and re inspection if MCI cancel their recognition or lowers seats but in all these cases,Supreme Court is very strict and always orders High Court not to ineterfer and accept what MCI decides.
Recently SC stayed Madras High Court order of giving 196 marks to tamilnadu students appeared for NEET examination in Tamil as many questions translation in tamil from english papers in NEET subjects were wrong.The SC ordered that such way of dolling of marks cannot be accepted and asked for remedy in another way by calling all concerned in next hearing.
In brief Supreme Court has loud and clearly states that Medical Education cannot be a bazar where investors to run a Medical College to earn crores cannot be accepted but it is a noble profession,all industralists,businessmen,politicians who want to give medical education by opening a medical college are welcomed but their intention should be a service to nation and mankind not to earn crores in few years by manipulating MCI and Health Ministry to get recognition to start a Medical college with limited faculty members,hired patients in opd and ipd with limited OT,laboratories,ICUs and other facilities where hardly any good education is imparted but a black industry of earning black money is run.