New Delhi: The Centre on Friday said it will fulfil a key mandate of regulating course fee in medical colleges from 2020-21 academic session.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said fee regulation is one of the key provisions of the proposed National Medical Commission which will be set up at the earliest.
The Parliament had in August this year passed the National Medical Commission Bill to develop and regulate all aspects of medical education, profession and institutions in India.
As the first step in this direction, the Minister said there will be a single entrance test for all medical admission in the country from 2020. With this announcement, admissions to AIIMS and JIPMER will also be done through NEET.
The next move will be regulating course fee in medical institutes, the Minister added.
The Medical Council of India had no power to regulate fees. But with the formation of the new commission, it will have the power to determine fees in 50 per cent of private medical college seats. Most states currently have committees that fix the fees.
Critics, however, have argued that this clause will further unregulate the fee structure rather than regulating the tuition fee.
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