HC refuses to direct medical college to reduce fee
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The Madras High Court (HC) has refused to direct a personal medical college to reduce the annual fee of ₹22.50 lakh, collected from MBBS college students simply because the establishment had performed solely on-line lessons since April this 12 months due to the lockdown to battle COVID-19.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh stated: “Even though the situation is extraordinary, that does not mean that this court can exceed its limits and give directions which are not sustainable in the eye of law. Therefore, this court does not find any scope for reduction of tuition fees.”
The choose agreed with SRM Institute of Science and Technology and SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre at Kattankulathur in Kancheepuram district that the fee couldn’t be decreased because the establishments had to incur expenditure beneath a number of heads.
It was introduced to the discover of the court docket that medical schools had to spend a substantial amount of cash on sustaining the infrastructure and paying salaries to the employees even when bodily lessons weren’t performed due to the lockdown.
Further, now that faculties had been permitted to begin bodily lessons from this month and the National Medical Commission had additionally determined to lengthen the course interval by three months, the petitioner schools weren’t going to cost extra, the court docket was advised.
The schools, nevertheless, accepted a suggestion made by the choose to acquire the fee in instalments, and therefore, the choose directed that the primary instalment of 40% needs to be paid on or earlier than December 15. The relaxation needs to be paid in two extra instalments earlier than January 4 and February 8 respectively.
“The time granted by this court for the payment of fees in instalments will not be extended under any circumstance … In the event of non-payment of fees as per the directions issued by this court, it is left open to the institution to proceed further in accordance with law,” he ordered.
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