Due to the subsistence allowance dispute, the operation of the new academic session of postgraduate level (PG) medical education has become uncertain. Private medical colleges are leaving aside government-like subsistence allowances for resident doctors. On the other hand, resident doctors who have been studying since before have also started protesting.

The government had decided in the first week of January that the private medical colleges should also give a monthly subsistence allowance of 48,000 to the resident doctors. Accordingly, the Medical Education Commission issued a circular to universities and institutes to implement the decision on giving subsistence allowance on 26 January. After the private medical college was not ready to implement the decision regarding subsistence allowance, the commission started the process of student admission only in the government medical college .

14 students including Sujan Neupane went to the Supreme Court saying that the number of seats was reduced after the action of the commission. The bench of Judge Sapna Malla Pradhan has given an interim order on 21 March not to proceed with the 'matching' process. "Since the private medical college was not ready to provide PG education by paying 48,000 monthly subsistence allowance, the admission process was started only in the government medical college," said Anjani Kumar Jha, vice president of the commission, "We were ready to conduct classes from 18 Baisakh. Due to the order of the court, the matching and admission process has been stopped.

The commission had instructed to provide 48 thousand subsistence allowance to resident doctors studying PG from February. According to the directives of the commission, Tribhuvan and Kathmandu universities also instructed private medical colleges under them to give allowances. However, a student of Kist Medical College said that he left his studies and work and started protesting because the private medical college refused to give allowance. The college management threatened that they will fail if they ask for allowance. We are in a movement," said the student.

Resident doctors of more than 15 private medical colleges across the country are on strike. Jha, the vice-president of the commission, said that they started protesting because they did not receive subsistence allowance. We asked to give subsistence allowance to the students who are studying and will be admitted now. But the private medical colleges did not claim seats for new admissions because they could not give allowances,' he said, 'The agitation has started when they said that allowances will not be given even to the students who are studying.' Even after the decision of the government, they have provided only the same amount as allowance, the protesting doctor complains. The Dean of Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Manoj Humagai, said that due to the Commission's decision to give 48,000 subsistence allowance and the stand of the college administrators who could not give it, the admissions and studies of PG have been blocked . The colleges disagreed saying that they do not accept the commission's decision. It is a private matter that they cannot give 48,000 subsistence allowance to old students and if they have to give subsistence allowance to new students, they will not take admission at all," he said.

Since this dispute has reached the court and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Humagai expressed the belief that it will be resolved from there. He said that Kathmandu University has prepared to provide subsistence allowance to the students of its medical college as per the decision of the commission.

Gyanendra Karki, President of Private Medical College Association, said that private colleges cannot give allowances to the Commission in writing. He said that if 48,000 subsistence allowance is to be given, the government should ensure its source. "We cannot give 48,000 monthly subsistence allowance with 2.3 million tuition fees," he said. After the information of private colleges, the commission issued a notice on 14th March not to give any PG level seats to private medical colleges. The commission has issued a notification for matching in 400 seats. There is confusion as to what will happen to the 700 seats fixed in private colleges.