The AP government on Friday issued orders for fixing fees in private colleges
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday issued orders for fixing fees in private medical and dental colleges in the state.
Fees for Category A (convener quota) seats in private medical and dental colleges have been slashed to Rs 10,000 per annum while that for Category B (management quota) in private medical colleges have been fixed at Rs 11 lakh.
Students joining private dental colleges under Category B will have to pay Rs 4.5 lakh per annum. Private medical and dental colleges will also hold a separate entrance test from this year on for admissions into management quota seats in line with Supreme Court ruling.
Students can only get admission into Category A seats through the state-conducted Eamcet. Private college managements will hold the MCET-AC test for admissions into (Category B) management quota seats.
The government amended the AP Unaided Non-Minority Professional Institutions Rules of 2007 and AP Unaided Minority Professional Institutions Rules of 2007 to allow private medical and dental colleges to hold their own entrance test MCET-AC for admissions to Category B seats. MCET will be conducted by a third party engaged by the college managements association. MCET-AC will be held in May this year.
All India Medical College Managements Association president G. Bhaskar Rao said, “We will hold MCET-AC in May this year. The exact schedule will be released later. The government has just issued orders so we will meet and decide.”
The government had decided to slash the fees last month but couldn’t owing to the MLC poll code of conduct. While Category A fee has been reduced drastically, fee for management quota seats has been filled.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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