The Madras High Court on Friday directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to reconsider an office memorandum issued by it on February 3 insisting that the fee for 50% of the seats at deemed-to-be universities and self-financing medical colleges be on a par with the fee collected by government medical colleges in the respective State or Union Territory.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala ordered that a fresh memorandum be issued at the earliest and made it clear that the existing fee structure should continue until the NMC reconsiders the issue in the light of certain negative aspects that may crop up owing to collection of very low fees from 50% of the students and exorbitant fees from the others.
