Three-fold fee hike in govt medical colleges for post-graduate courses

Sarbjit Dhaliwal

Chandigarh, May 22

The Punjab Government today announced a steep fee hike for post-graduate courses in government medical colleges.

For the three-year course of MD and MS (clinical stream), the fee has been jacked up to Rs 1.25 lakh for the first year from Rs 42,000 per annum.

For the second year, it has been raised to Rs 1.5 lakh per annum and for the third year, it has been hiked to Rs 1.75 lakh. The state government issued a notification in this regard today.

Earlier, the three-year PG course in the clinical stream such as medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, gynecology, skin, radiology, psychiatry used to cost about Rs 1.26 lakh. Now, students will have to pay Rs 4.5 lakh.

The fee has also been raised for MD and MS (basic stream) that includes anatomy, pathology, bio-chemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, forensic medicine, social and preventive medicine. It will be now Rs 1 lakh for the first year, Rs 1.1 lakh for the second year and Rs 1.2 for the third year.

Earlier, the state government had raised the fee for such courses in private medical colleges.

Final list of medical seats

Faridkot: After scrapping the 9 per cent micro reservation quota for riots-affected, sportspersons, wards of Punjab police, defence persons and freedom fighters in postgraduate medical courses in three government medical colleges in Punjab, the aspiring candidates for these medical PG seats now have now 16 more seats to avail of.

In the final list of the available seats for the PG medical courses in Punjab, released by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) today evening, six medical colleges in Punjab are offering 439 PG seats this academic session.

Out of total 290 PG seats in three government medical colleges at Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot, 147 seats have been allocated for the All-India quota and 153 seats are available for Punjab quota candidates.

After quashing the micro-reservation quota, the three government medical colleges have vacated a total of 16 reserved seats for Punjab quota general category.

Three private medical colleges — Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Science at Amritsar, DMC Ludhiana and Gian Sagar Medical College at Banur — have offered total 149 MD seats in various medical disciplines.

While 75 of the seats in these private medical colleges are available to fill under government quota, 74 seats will go to the management quota. In the management quota, 21 seats have been reserved for NRI candidates in these three private colleges.