Providing a major relief to the post graduate medical students across the State, the Punjab Government on Tuesday announced to bring the fee structure for all private medical colleges at par.
“The partial modification has been done by the Medical Education and Research Department in the notification issued in 2020 with a view to bring uniformity in the fee charged from the students of all the Government and Private medical colleges and universities in Punjab,” said the State Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni on Tuesday.
He said that the private medical colleges and universities were charging excess fee than the fee structure implemented in 2015 so much so that the Adesh University was charging Rs 16.50 lakh annually from the MD students instead of Rs 6.50 lakh, which lead to excess financial burden on the students interested in pursuing medical education.
“The issue was brought to my notice after I assumed the charge of the Department. I immediately began efforts in right earnest to bring uniformity in fee structure thereby reducing unnecessary burden on the students opting for medical education. Now, modification letter has been issued aimed at bringing uniformity in fee structure,” he said.
Soni added that the fee in Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Christian Dental College and Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Sri Guru Ramdas University of Health Sciences Amritsar, Desh Bhagat University and Adesh University, Bathinda for the MD/MS (Clinical) course would be Rs 6.50 lakh whereas the fee for the NRI quota seat for the full course is 1.25 lakh US Dollars.