BPL Scholarship for MBBS: Criteria, Application and other things in detail

Government have introduced Below Poverty Line (BPL) Scholarship Scheme for financially disadvantaged MBBS students in Private Self Financing Medical Colleges in the State as per the GO 2nd cited by imbibing the true spirit of the judgment dated 12/08/2005 of Hon'ble Apex Court of India in P.A Inamdar and others Vs State of Maharashtra [(2005) 6 SCC 537]. But the Hon'ble High Court of Kerala as per judgment 3rd cited, has quashed the above said Government Order. As per the order, the Hon'ble High Court further directed that the amounts collected from each NRI student to create a corpus fund be transferred to respective institutions and that a separate account shall be maintained to be utilized only for the benefit of students belonging to economically weaker section who, may be admitted to such institutions on the basis of allotment and that such account shall be operated only jointly by a nominee of the self-financing institutions and that of the State Government and that is open for the State to promulgate suitable legislative measures to achieve the object of providing scholarship to the students from weaker sections of society as observed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in P.A Inamdar and others Vs State of Maharashtra [(2005) 6 SCC 537]. The State Government filed SLP(C) No. 98859888/2020 before the Hon'ble Supreme Court against the judgment dated 23/07/2020 of Hon'ble High Court of Kerala in WP(c) No.7771/2018 and connected cases.

The BPL students, who were admitted on the basis of scholarship schemes or who are to be admitted in future, shall not be required to pay the full, regular fees. They will continue to pay fees at the subsidized rate fixed by the State or the Committee. If they have paid any fees, over and above the subsidized amount promised, they are entitled to a refund of the amounts so paid. Alternatively, those amounts may be set-off against the fees to be charged for later years. Such refund must be made within three months.


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