As expected, the self financing medical management and State Government have started a market level bargain regarding Annual Fee for all the 3000 plus MBBS seats. The former wants to fix 15 Lakhs, the Government bargains for lowering it. We can almost be sure it would be fixed at 10 Lakhs, or atleast 8 Lakhs.
A detailed proposal linking fee with NEET rank was submitted by me to the Government. It would offer Rs.50500 as Annual Fee for the student with highest NEET rank in Private Medical College, and 1percent increase for each subsequent seat. The student with next rank will have to pay Rs 51000. The third seat 51500 , and so on. The 1000th seat will have a fee of 5 Lakhs, 2000th will have 10 Lakhs, 3000th will have 15 Lakhs.
This combines academic justice with socioeconomic justice, but at the same time generates sufficient fund for running private Medical Colleges. Up to 1000 students with higher NEET rank will get opportunity to study with less than 5 Lakhs per year.
SC/ST students and other students eligible for Fee concession may be given that. The incremental fee as detailed above may be computed for other seats.
This would enable to collect Rs.150 to 200 crores.( depending on the total seats from which fee can be collected)
The fee should be collected by the Regulatory Committee or authorized agency at the time of counselling itself and kept. Each College should be paid the annual share of Fee, based on the projected expenditure statement, based on previous years' expenditure, adjusted as per norms after a fair scrutiny.
All this is possible with a compact Accounts& Finance Unit, attached to the Regulatory Committee.
The baseline fee for the first seat and the incremental rate can be fixed realistically.
Any excess fund, can be used for general schemes for improvement of Medical Education.
There is no need for a category of Merit and Management seats, with uniform selection criteria and selection process. No issue of cross subsidy of one category to other is involved.
I submitted this to the office of CM Health Minister, Regulatory Committee, Health Secretary. Got an Acknowledgement from CM's Office, but no one seems to be interested in considering such a proposal/scheme linking Rank and Fee for MBBS, which could have become a national model.
Instead, the market style bargain( called high level discussion) started with Management.
Who in Government and high Political Echelons and Officialdom, designated/ decorated Medical or Higher Education Experts/ Advisers or Judiciary is genuinely interested in academic justice and quality aspects of Medical Education.?
Kumar.K.A
A detailed proposal linking fee with NEET rank was submitted by me to the Government. It would offer Rs.50500 as Annual Fee for the student with highest NEET rank in Private Medical College, and 1percent increase for each subsequent seat. The student with next rank will have to pay Rs 51000. The third seat 51500 , and so on. The 1000th seat will have a fee of 5 Lakhs, 2000th will have 10 Lakhs, 3000th will have 15 Lakhs.
This combines academic justice with socioeconomic justice, but at the same time generates sufficient fund for running private Medical Colleges. Up to 1000 students with higher NEET rank will get opportunity to study with less than 5 Lakhs per year.
SC/ST students and other students eligible for Fee concession may be given that. The incremental fee as detailed above may be computed for other seats.
This would enable to collect Rs.150 to 200 crores.( depending on the total seats from which fee can be collected)
The fee should be collected by the Regulatory Committee or authorized agency at the time of counselling itself and kept. Each College should be paid the annual share of Fee, based on the projected expenditure statement, based on previous years' expenditure, adjusted as per norms after a fair scrutiny.
All this is possible with a compact Accounts& Finance Unit, attached to the Regulatory Committee.
The baseline fee for the first seat and the incremental rate can be fixed realistically.
Any excess fund, can be used for general schemes for improvement of Medical Education.
There is no need for a category of Merit and Management seats, with uniform selection criteria and selection process. No issue of cross subsidy of one category to other is involved.
I submitted this to the office of CM Health Minister, Regulatory Committee, Health Secretary. Got an Acknowledgement from CM's Office, but no one seems to be interested in considering such a proposal/scheme linking Rank and Fee for MBBS, which could have become a national model.
Instead, the market style bargain( called high level discussion) started with Management.
Who in Government and high Political Echelons and Officialdom, designated/ decorated Medical or Higher Education Experts/ Advisers or Judiciary is genuinely interested in academic justice and quality aspects of Medical Education.?
Kumar.K.A
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