Kerala MBBS Fee : Supreme Court Restrains Implementation Of Fresh Report Of Regulatory Commission [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a special leave petition filed by Karuna Medical College challenging the Kerala High Court judgment which set aside the fee fixed by the fee regulatory commission for the MBBS courses in self-financing colleges in Kerala.

While issuing notice, a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India ordered that if the fee regulatory commission submits any report after the remand by the High Court, the same should not be implemented during the pendency of the case in the apex court.

"Issue notice.

In the meantime, if the Fee Regulatory Committee submits any report after remand, the same shall not be implemented", said the order passed by the bench, which also included Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian.

The SLP was challenging the judgment passed by a division bench of the High Court on May 19 this year setting aside the fee structure determined by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee for MBBS courses in self-financing medical colleges in the state for the academic years from 2017-18 onwards till 2019-2020.

Observing that the orders were passed by the committee without proper application of mind, a bench of Justices A M Shaffique and T V Anilkumar had remanded the matter to it to re-determine the fee structure.

The committee had fixed the fee ranging from ₹5.85 lakh to ₹7.19 lakh for MBBS courses in various self-financing colleges for the academic year 2019-20. The committee had also  affirmed its earlier fee structure at ₹4.15 lakh per student for the 2016-17 academic year, ₹4.80 lakh for 2017-18, and ₹5.54 lakh for 2018-19 for the MBBS courses.

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