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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government will be going to the all party meeting scheduled for Monday with a sigh of relief that it..

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government will be going to the all party meeting scheduled for Monday with a sigh of relief that it could get a favourable verdict from both the High Court and Supreme Court on 50 per cent government seats for postgraduate medical courses in selffinancing colleges.
However, the relief ends there. The contentious issue of fees structure for the PG courses will remain a headache. The four medical colleges under the InterChurch Council have already made it clear that they would not agree to the fee structure announced by the Director of Medical Education (DME) in the Government Order issued on June 20.

As per the order the fees structure for PG medical courses will be as follows: PG degree (clinical) Rs 5 lakh, PG diploma (clinical) Rs 2 lakh, PG degree (nonclinical) Rs 3.75 lakh and PG diploma (nonclinical) Rs 1.25 lakh.

Then there is the allegation that the State Government is going soft on the InterChurch Council on the issue of MBBS courses.

This was because the InterChurch Council had stayed away from the agreement with the previous LDF Government and admitted students to all seats on their own with a uniform fee.

Subsequently, MES president Faisal Gafoor came out against this statement.

The Opposition in all likelihood will attack the State Government for its failure to address these issues during the all party meeting.