New Delhi: Now this news will definitely force you to put your finger in between your teethes, as a private medical college in Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow is charging whopping Rs 1.2 cores from students for admission in MBBS seat.

The city of nawabs Lucknow based Era Medical College seems to have passed all previous private medical college records by announcing an exorbitant Rs 1.2 crore for each of its MBBS seats falling under the management and NRI quota for the 2018-19 academic session.

The fee-structure at Lucknow’s Era Medical College for the 2018-19 academic session, which was widely shared on social media, has led to outrage, with many saying the government is allowing unabashed sale of medical seats in a country crippled with acute shortage of doctors.

According to reports, the college has fixed the Ist year fee at Rs 30 lakh, the highest figure on record and the 5th year fee fixed on the least expensive scale of Rs.15 lakh. The five-year costs summing up to become Rs 1,20,97,000. The hostel fee in this total amounts to Rs 4 lakh per year, which is little more than Rs 33,000 a month.

Lucknow’s private medical college charging whopping Rs 1.2 crore for MBBS fees:

A senior official said, “NEET is now mandatory for admission to medical colleges, so only those who clear the cut-off mark will get admission in any college,” although, the college Principal, MMA Faridi was not available for the comment beside several attempts were made to approach him.

The President, Resident Doctors’ Association, AIIMS, Delhi, Harjit Singh Bhatti tweeted, The unabashedly fixed high fee on the by the college with the approval of the MCI in 2006 had elicited many angry reactions.

The former Union Health and Family Welfare, Secretary, K Sujatha Rao tweeted saying that fee was a very serious issue. “The implications are not good for India. We cannot afford medical education to be for the rich only.”