After a medical student wrote to the Prime Minister's office regarding the National Board of Examinations alleged Rs 30 crore-profit, the board has said that the fees were approved by the Ministry of Health. The matter came to light after an RTI response revealed that the National Board of Examinations (NBE) collected Rs 48 crore as application fees from NEET-PG aspirants in 2018. The matter came to light after an RTI response revealed that the National Board of Examinations (NBE) collected Rs 48 crore as application fees from NEET-PG aspirants in 2018.
Scores of medical students alleged that if logistics and other charges were taken into consideration, the board had made a profit of over Rs 30 crore, which should have been subsidized. They said that the collected fees were almost four times of what AIIMS charges for its postgraduate exams. The NBE, under the ministry of health that…
