Anticipating a huge demand for undergraduate medical admissions this year, private medical universities and colleges in Tamil Nadu have jacked up charges for MBBS admission - application forms, tuition fee and the illegal capitation fee. At the DD Naidu Medical College , the application form for the entrance exam costs Rs 25,000. Students who qualify will have to buy another form for Rs 5,000. College chairman TD Naidu said the college charges 7.5 lakh per year for tuition, boarding and lodging fee for MBBS courses. Deemed universities like Sri Ramachandra University charge 6.5 lakh as annual tuition fee, while SRM Medical College and Chettinad Medical College charge Rs 4 lakh per year.
Some parents said that medical colleges also demand capitation fees ranging between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 45 lakh. Stung by media investigations that exposed the practice of capitation fees, colleges are taking precautions. Some have security personnel to thoroughly frisk parents who go to remit capitation fees.
"I was shocked when one office assistant asked me to deposit my handbag, mobile phone and pens at a counter before meeting the admission officer. When I went in, they said I will have to pay capitation fee of Rs 35 lakh," said Sandhya Shankar, who went to a medical college's administrative office in the city seeking admission for her son.
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