Medicos in for a triple jump!

FEES FOR various professional courses of King Georges? Medical University (KGMU) may go up by three times. The faculty board in its meeting on Saturday has given its consent to the fee hike and the proposal now awaits the ratification of Executive Council (EC) only. There is a possibility that if the KGMU administration gives its approval to this proposal of the examination committee, the hike may come into effect from this academic session only.

FEES FOR various professional courses of King Georges’ Medical University (KGMU) may go up by three times. The faculty board in its meeting on Saturday has given its consent to the fee hike and the proposal now awaits the ratification of Executive Council (EC) only. There is a possibility that if the KGMU administration gives its approval to this proposal of the examination committee, the hike may come into effect from this academic session only.

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As per the proposed hike, the fees for the MD/MS (PG courses) would go up from the existing Rs 3000 to Rs 9000, MBBS fees will go up from Rs 350 to Rs 1000, diploma courses from Rs 2500 to Rs 7500, DM/MCA from Rs 3000 to Rs 9000. As per the existing fee structure, the income of KGMU comes to around Rs 10 lakh. With the proposed hike in the examination fee, the income of the examination cell would go up to Rs 30 lakh.

The KGMU administration has been underlining the fact that they are facing immense problem in conducting the examination for various professional courses as the cost of these examinations has gone up manifold. To counter the problem, controller of examination MS Siddiqui has sent a proposal to faculty board for fee hike. Sources said that with cost going up, there was no other option left with the administration but to raise the examination fees.

In another development, faculty board has granted the request of its 12 students to give a final chance to clear various professional examinations which they have failed to clear for five times.

Before, they are allowed to take the examination, these students would be asked to give an undertaking in which they would allow the varsity to cancel their admission if they failed to clear the examination this time.

The faculty board in its meeting has also decided to declare the result of one of its student Danweer Singh whose results were withheld following his alleged involvement in the violence and arson incident that rocked the campus sometime back.