100% hike in PG course fees of Municipal Medical College in Gujrat

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to double the fees for postgraduate diploma and degree courses of the Municipal Medical College from the next academic session.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the AMC Medical Education Trust Monday, said Mayor Asit Vora.

He said the annual fees for diploma study has been increased from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh while for the degree course, the students will have to pay Rs 4 lakh a year as against Rs 2 lakh. Besides, the internship fee charged from the students from outside Gujarat has been increased from Rs 5,000 a month to Rs 8,000.

There are 180 degree seats and eight diploma seats at present, Vora said.

He said there has been a rise in the stipend to doctors by 40 per cent. Accordingly, the stipend for first-year students will go up from Rs 20,000 to Rs 28,000, for the second-year it will be increased from Rs 21,000 to Rs 29,400 and for the third-year, it will be Rs 30,800 as against the present Rs 22,000.

The arrears as per the new stipend grade will be effective from 2006 and not from October 2012 as was decided earlier, Vora said.

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