FIVE LAKHS DEPOSIT FOR MED. SEAT

The state govt today agreed to the whims and fancies of another private self financing management association, ignoring and deceiving the public at large. With signing in of the agreement between private self financing medical management association and the govt which has a provision for collecting Rs. Five lakhs as compulsory deposit for five years apart from the regular tuition fee of Rs. Five lakhs the govt again went on to neglect the interests of students and parents.

The agreement was reached between the representatives of the medical colleges consortium and the State Education Minister M A Baby and State Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy on Saturday at Thrissur.

The consortium consists of 11 self-financing medical colleges in the State. They have set apart 550 seats for government allotment which is 50 percent of the total seats in these medical colleges. The rest 550 seats will be considered for management quota.

The Health Minister later said that the private medical colleges had agreed to levy from 550 students fee equivalent to that in government medical colleges.

Representatives of the Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur; Pushpagiri Medical College, Thiruvalla; Malankara Orthodox Syrian Christian Medical College, Kolenchery and the Jubilee Mission Medical College, Thrissur, coming under the Inter-Church Council, did not participate in the talks.