Charge of $10,000 proposed to recognize foreign med courses

India's National Medical Commission (NMC) has proposed to introduce a fee that foreign universities will have to pay for their medical courses to be recognized in India.

- Priyanka Sharma

Under its new draft rules, foreign universities or accreditation agencies will need to pay the NMC a fee of $10,000 (Rs 8.6 lakh) for each application seeking recognition by India of a medical course conducted by them.

"Any foreign authority in any country outside India, entrusted with the recognition shall remit $10,000 (US dollars ten thousand only) per qualification as fees to the Commission while submitting its application in a proforma," the NMC said in a draft notification, amending a clause of the National Medical Commission (Recognition of Medical Qualification) regulations.