Kerala govt. has asked private medical, dental colleges to abide by NMC directive on fees: Muraleedharan
The Kerala government has given strict instructions to self-financing private medical and dental colleges in the State that, in accordance with the order of the National Medical Commission (NMC), they can collect the course fee only for a period of four-and-a-half years for this year’s and the next year’s admissions, Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has said. Mr. Muraleedharan said the decision was taken at a meeting which was convened recently to restructure the course fee for MBBS and BDS courses in private self-financing colleges He was replying to a calling attention motion moved by Xavier Chittilappilly in the Assembly on Tuesday (June 30, 2026) about several private self-financing colleges collecting course fee for five years, even after the NMC had directed that fees be collected only for the course period of four-and-a-half years. The Minister said that despite the NMC’s order that the excess fees collected from students be returned, many private medical colleges had refused to comply with the directive. Mr. Muraleedharan said the government had received several memorandums from people about the issue …
