The UT government will pay to the self-financing medical colleges a tuition fees of Rs 2.25 lakhs for Centac-sponsored students, who are required to pay the balance amount of the total fees for admission, Chief minister N Rangasamy has said.
A circular had been issued to the seven self- financing medical colleges by the Director of Higher Education G Paneerselvam, requesting them to collect only balance of this amount as tuition fees from the students sponsored by Centac for admission to their colleges. The tuition fees of Rs 2.25 lakhs for each student would be disbursed to the institutions directly by the government as per the announcement made by the Chief minister, he said.
The government had reached an understanding with the self-financing medical colleges to admit the students on payment of the balance fee and the government would be paying Rs 2.25 lakhs per student directly to the college at the end of the counselling process, Rangasamy told Express.
“We have discussed the matter during seat sharing process and subsequently we have dispatched an official letter assuring them of payment of fees amounting to Rs 2.25 lakhs for each student admitted. It will be paid within a month after the admission process is completed,“ Rangasamy said.
The medical college authorities have confirmed that they would be admitting the students by collecting the balance amount of fees from tomorrow.
“Once the admission process is over, we will be sending the list to the government as well as to the Chief minister,” Dr James Gnanadoss, Director of PIMS, said. Centac has sponsored 262 students to all the seven medical colleges, who have to join before July 27.
Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences had fixed a fee of Rs 3.50 lakhs, (a tuition fee of Rs 2.40 lakhs plus additional fee of Rs 1.10 lakhs), Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Sri Venkateswara Medical College are charging Rs 3.25 lakhs (Rs 2.25 lakhs plus additional fee of Rs 1 lakh).
Deemed institutions, Srilakshminarayan Institute of Medical Sciences, is charging Rs 4.5 lakhs, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute is charging Rs 5 lakhs and both Vinayaga Mission Medical College and Arupadai Veedu Medical College are charging Rs 6 lakhs as tuition fees.