The court issued the order on a petition moved by Judicial Activism Panel chairman Azhar Siddique who contended that the private medical colleges had been receiving Rs600,000 from a student per year.
He said a poor student could not even dream of studying at a private college through he/she had the constitutional right to get education.
The lawyer submitted that the PMDC should be asked that under what law it allowed private medical colleges to fix such exorbitant fee structure. He pointed out that a division bench of the Lahore High Court had, in 2011, directed the PMDC to introduce a fee structure in the private colleges so that students, having less money but ability, could study at the private colleges.
The petitioner said that the PMDC had miserably failed to ensure affordable quality education in medical colleges. He said the private institutions had been increasing their fees but their quality of the education had been declining day by day.
Advocate Siddique prayed to the court that the PMDC should be asked whether it had taken any action against the private medical institutions for rendering expensive and substandard education. He submitted that education was a fundamental right of every citizen but the private medical colleges had usurped this right in violation of Article 25-A of the Constitution.
Earlier, the University of Health Sciences (UHS) had submitted its reply and stated that the fee structure of private medical colleges in the country was regulated by the PMDC.
However, it pointed out that according to the Council's rules no medical or dental institution training for MBBS/BDS in private sector could charge tuition fee more than Rs600,000 per annum per student. The news
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