The Madras High Court on Tuesday agreed to an urgent hearing of a batch of cases filed by some deemed universities and self financing medical colleges against the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) insistence that they must collect only the fees collected in government medical colleges from 50% of their students.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari accepted a request made by senior counsel Vijay Narayan, representing Education Promotion Society for India, a body of various educational institutions, to hear the matter on Wednesday since the fees determination committees in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry might notify the fees any time.
The first Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice N. Mala had heard the matter partly last week and decided to continue the hearing on Tuesday. However, the second judge in the Bench availed leave and hence the Chief Justice sat along with Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on Tuesday.
