The 19th meeting of the Medical Education Commission held on 28th April, 2025, concluded that private medical colleges should ensure living expenses for residential doctors as per the rate decided, and since the decision came into effect.
The meeting stressed that agitating residential doctors should return to their duties and studies. It may be noted that the 16th meeting of the Commission on February 8 mandated that the private medical colleges pay the residential doctors' living allowances on par with those of government facilities. It has been decided that private residential doctors shall be paid Rs 48,737 of living allowances per month.
The meeting also entertained a report by the 11-member task force to review the number of seats and fee structures of the private medical colleges for MBBS and BDS programmes. In the meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, task force coordinator Dr Deepak Kafely, the Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, handed over the report to Prime Minister and Commission Chair KP Sharma Oli.
The report has paved the way for forming a technical committee. It reviews the seats and fee structures based on the standards of the medical colleges following the Medical Education Act- 2075 BS. Based on the report, a technical committee was formed by Prof. Dr. Sujan Babu Marhatta of the Directorate of Planning, Coordination, and Academic Upgradation within the Commission. It shall comprise Prof. Dr. Dibya Singh Shah, senior charter accountant Mahesh Guragain, charter accountant Santosh Khanal, and undersecretaries of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health and Population, and the Ministry of Finance.
Talking to the media following the meeting, Commission Co-Chair and Minister for Education, Science and Technology Raghuji Pant said the Commission's 16th meeting has already decided on living allowances on par with the government facilities for residential doctors of the private hospital, and agitating doctors are expected to get back to work.
