SFMCs retract from secision on reduced fees

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The selffinancing medical college managements have gone back on their earlier decision to allot 50 per cent se..

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The selffinancing medical college managements have gone back on their earlier decision to allot 50 per cent seats in government quota for a reduced fees.
The selffinancing medical college managements association is learnt to have reached an agreement with the government on Thursday fixing a uniform fees for both management and government quota seats, except those seats which reserved for the candidates from BPL families. However, Health Minister Adoor Prakash denied having reached any such agreement with the managements. He said that the discussions would continue on Friday.

He said that the management had asked for a higher fees which the government could not agree.

The fees for all the other seats, including government quota and management quota seats, will be Rs 4.5 lakh.

The Association and the government had already agreed on the upper limit in fees in the management quota seats at Rs 4.8 lakh. However, the managements had not signed an agreement for some reasons. Now, finally when the formal agreement was reached, the fee structure has changed drastically for dubious reasons.