Illegal charges with nursing students

Nursing students have complained that the campus has arbitrarily collected lakhs of rupees under various headings . Students and parents said that they charged a fee of 20,000 per student for practical nursing practice. There are 38 students in the second year of nursing and 40 students in the first year of the three-year nursing program at the

campus. The female students said that the campus is charging arbitrary fees even by enforcing the mandatory rule that they have to study in the hostel.

campus has associated with CTEVT by showing its own 100-bed hospital RK Medicity in Dhangadhimai municipality. In the Medical Education Act, there is a mandatory provision to have a hospital of one hundred beds for experimental practice.

However, patients go to this hospital, which has become controversial due to negligence in treatment, only in a very small number. Since there are no more patients in their hospital, the campus has been conducting practical exercises for the students at the provincial hospital at Siraha headquarters and at the Mirchaiya hospital in Mirchaiya. A student told Kantipur that she took money at the rate of 20,000 for experimental practice in other hospitals. According to the campus, 20 students are practicing at Mirchaiya Hospital in Mirchaiya. The remaining 58 practice in Siraha provincial hospital. Campus director Dr. Birendra Choudhary said, "We have sent all the things that the students need to another hospital instead of our own hospital. We will gradually bring them to our own." "We used to pay money in the beginning, but now we are being asked for, the campus will not post if we don't give the money," a student told Kantipur on the condition of anonymity, "we are students, what can we do?" Most of them have sent cash to the campus.

'I was told not to put the money in the account, so I sent my daughter 20,000 rupees,' said a parent, 'but some students have also deposited money in the account.' She responded that she didn't know. "I was on leave, it's only been a week since I came," she said, "I didn't know what happened in my absence." "If someone comes to ask, tell them straight away that they didn't ask for money from us, they didn't torture us," he said in the audio received by Kantipur from a campus source. ;.'

CTEVT has set tuition fees of 4 lakh 75 thousand rupees for nursing. Tuition fees are to be paid in three installments of 40 percent in the first installment, 30 percent in the second year installment and 30 percent in the third year installment . According to installments, the student will pay only 190,000 to the campus in the first year.

In the first installment, the bank vouchers of the students and parents of the students and parents of the students who had illegally collected four lakh rupees in the first installment have been provided to Kantipur. It is seen in the vouchers that the campus has collected between 3 lakh 75 thousand to 3 lakh 86 thousand per student .

The parents say that the campus took the amount from them as one year's class fee and one year's hostel fee. According to them, 158,000 has been taken as hostel fee and the remaining one year college fee. However, they complain that they have not even given the receipt.

Nagendra Sah, Head of Madhesh Province of CTEVT, responded that he was not aware of the campus charging extra fees and making compulsory arrangements to stay in the dormitory. He said that action will be taken if found to have acted against the rules. He also stated that

has been monitoring the campus every year. CTEVT issued a circular last October not to charge more than the specified amount to the educational institutions and not to make it compulsory saying that the hostel is a matter of student's choice .

The students and parents also complained that the campus charged high fees by forcing them to stay in the hostel. The monthly fee of the hostel has been charging 13,000 per student. Meanwhile, in Mirchaiya, rooms are now available for rent from 2,000 to 2,500. Similarly, with other expenses, one person can live on 5 to 6 thousand per month.

They don't want to live in the campus hostel by paying such expensive fees . However, the campus has been forcing students to live in their own dormitories by showing fear that they may fail if they stay outside.

A parent who was forced to keep her daughter in the campus dormitory even though it was expensive after being told not to stay outside and not to take 'risks' while staying outside, told . CTEVT's Madhesh Province monitoring team alerted the campus on March 3 saying that no criteria were met in the hostel.