Explain policy for pvt medical college fees
HC asks govt
The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in three weeks why it should not be directed to formulate a policy for making the admission and tuition fees at private medical colleges consistent with those at public medical colleges.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed came up with the rule following a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer AKM Foyez.
The lawyer filed the petition yesterday saying that public medical college authorities take 10,000 as admission fee from each student while authorities of private medical colleges collect Tk 13 to 15 lakh as the admission and tuition fees from each student.
He submitted the petition as a public interest litigation following a report published on the daily Prothom Alo on December 22 last year under the headline “Admission at Private Medical Colleges: Business of Tk 650 croreâ€.
Foyez prayed to the court to direct the authorities concerned of government to formulate a policy for fixing the admission and tuition fees at private medical college consistent with those at public medical colleges, Deputy Attorney General Mokhlesur Rahman told The Daily Star.
Secretaries to cabinet and ministries of education and health, and director general of directorate of health services have been made respondents to the rule.
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