The medical wing of YSRC has refuted allegations that YSRC government is selling medical seats in government medical colleges illegally.
“In fact, after assuming charge, Chief Minister Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy has gone on to decrease the medical fees charged by government medical colleges.” Dr.Mehboob Sheikh, Krishna, NTR and Guntur districts’ zonal in-charge of YSRC medical wing (YSRCMW) maintained.
Dr Sheik underlined that it was Nara Chandrababu Naidu, who initiated the policy of selling self-financing and NRI quota seats in AP’s government education system.So much so, NRIs paid 2–3 crore for each MBBS seat.
The YSRCMW zonal chief pointed out that after YSRC government has taken over, the fee for an NRI seat has been reduced to 50 lakh.
The fee for each B category MBBS seat has been reduced from 13.5 lakh to 12 lakh.Similarly, the fee of category A medical PG seats has been reduced from 8 lakh to 4 lakh.
The fee for category B seats has been reduced from 32 lakh to 16 lakh.
Recently, Health Minister Vidadala Rajini has allayed apprehensions being expressed by the opposition that the five new government medical colleges coming up in the State would prove to be unaffordable for the common man.
Ms.Rajini said that Chief Minister Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy was keen on providing world-class facilities at these new medical colleges in order to prevent migration of students from Andhra Pradesh to other States for pursuing MBBS.The rationale behind collecting higher fees under certain categories was to make these colleges self-sufficient, she said.
The Minister added that half of the seats at these five new medical colleges would be made available in the general pool at a nominal fee of ₹15,000 per annum.
