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A authorities aesculapian assemblage successful bluish Tamil Nadu has reportedly withheld “No Due” certificates to Scheduled Caste (SC) postgraduate aesculapian students who completed their people a period ago, insisting that they wage tuition fees from which they are officially exempt.
This is not a lawsuit successful isolation. Despite regulations exempting SC/ST/converted SC Christian candidates from yearly tuition fees of ₹30,000, respective authorities aesculapian colleges proceed to cod the magnitude and aboriginal refund it, a process that has go cumbersome for students, and is often marked by delays oregon non-payment.
Doctors said orders from the Adi Dravidar Welfare Department connected interest exemption and retrospective refunds from 2021-2022, arsenic good arsenic directions from the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) and Research not to cod tuition fees, were not being implemented properly.
At the Government Medical College, Cuddalore (formerly Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital attached to Annamalai University), PGs person been waiting for the “No Due” certificates – mandatory for the provisional certificates – for a month.
A root said, “The students paid tuition fees for the archetypal 2 years. After learning astir the exemption bid issued by the DME, they paid lone the peculiar interest of ₹1,030 and not the tuition interest for the 3rd year. Exams were conducted and results released, but erstwhile they approached the bureau for the ‘No Due’ certificate, unit refused to contented it, citing unpaid tuition fee.”
Doctors said the administrative unit were often “disrespectful” and made the students hold for hours. “The fees collected for the archetypal 2 years person inactive not been refunded. It has been implicit six months since they submitted documents for the refund,” a doc said. Juniors, too, proceed to wage the fees contempt being exempt.
Confirming this, authoritative sources said this was owed to administrative issues. The State authorities took implicit the assemblage successful 2021. They noted the request for wide instructions from the authorities reaffirming that SC/ST students should not beryllium charged tuition fees, and manus implicit accounts to the assemblage dean.
A doc who completed his PG successful 2023 successful Chennai said his batch was inactive waiting for refunds. “We person checked respective times, but determination was nary due response. They adjacent claimed determination was nary bid from the DME oregon the government. During the 3rd year, we submitted the authoritative connection instructing colleges not to cod fees from SC/ST candidates, yet we were made to pay, on with precocious fees,” helium said. This was the lawsuit successful galore authorities aesculapian colleges crossed the State, different doc added.
A elder doc who has repeatedly taken up the contented said the tuition interest exemption was reinstated astir six years aft it was withdrawn. In 2023, the authorities issued caller instructions to exempt SC/ST candidates and to refund fees collected successful 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. “Unfortunately, astir colleges person inactive not refunded the money,” helium said. A fig of candidates person filed complaints with the Chief Minister’s cell, but successful vain.
A DME authoritative said instructions had been issued to colleges, and they had stopped collecting fees.
