Shibu Thomas | TNN
Mumbai: A public interest litigation has been filed against high fees being charged by private unaided medical and dental colleges from students belonging to other states who had taken admissions in the year 2005-06.
Hearing the PIL by Dahisar resident Amit Mehra, a division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade directed that the admission brochure for that year be placed before the court.
“For the last three years students from outside Maharashtra of this particular batch have been charged Rs 6 lakhs which is on on par with fees of Non Resident Indian students,’’ said advocate Amrendra Mishra, counsel for the petitioner. He added, “Students domiciled in the state are being charged only Rs 2.17 lakhs.’’ However, students of the subsequent batches both from the state as well as from other states have been paying the same fees.
The apparently discriminatory fees came about following a joint memorandum signed between Association of Management of Unaided Private Medical and Dental Colleges and the state government before the Supreme Court in 2005. This MoU agreed to allowing the 15 % management quota in colleges to be filled by both NRI students as well as those from outside Maharashtra.
According to the petition this was supposed to be an interim arrangement till the seven judge bench delivered its judgment in the matter relating to fees charged by private institutions.
“While for the 2005-06 batch in respect of fees for both NRI and outside Maharashtra students were at par, the admission criteria was different,’’ said the petitioner. Students in the NRI category were required to obtain merely 50% marks in HSC, while students from other states had to also qualify in the CET examination conducted by the Association. The petition, while calling the different fee structure as discriminatory, has urged the court to quash the high fees charged from students form outside the state.
shibu.thomas1@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: A public interest litigation has been filed against high fees being charged by private unaided medical and dental colleges from students belonging to other states who had taken admissions in the year 2005-06.
Hearing the PIL by Dahisar resident Amit Mehra, a division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade directed that the admission brochure for that year be placed before the court.
“For the last three years students from outside Maharashtra of this particular batch have been charged Rs 6 lakhs which is on on par with fees of Non Resident Indian students,’’ said advocate Amrendra Mishra, counsel for the petitioner. He added, “Students domiciled in the state are being charged only Rs 2.17 lakhs.’’ However, students of the subsequent batches both from the state as well as from other states have been paying the same fees.
The apparently discriminatory fees came about following a joint memorandum signed between Association of Management of Unaided Private Medical and Dental Colleges and the state government before the Supreme Court in 2005. This MoU agreed to allowing the 15 % management quota in colleges to be filled by both NRI students as well as those from outside Maharashtra.
According to the petition this was supposed to be an interim arrangement till the seven judge bench delivered its judgment in the matter relating to fees charged by private institutions.
“While for the 2005-06 batch in respect of fees for both NRI and outside Maharashtra students were at par, the admission criteria was different,’’ said the petitioner. Students in the NRI category were required to obtain merely 50% marks in HSC, while students from other states had to also qualify in the CET examination conducted by the Association. The petition, while calling the different fee structure as discriminatory, has urged the court to quash the high fees charged from students form outside the state.
shibu.thomas1@timesgroup.com
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