Kathmandu, Nov. 10 -- Medical college students on Saturday met with Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa and urged him to immediately act against private medical colleges that have defied successive government directives to refund the additional fees they charged the students earlier.

Though the education and home ministries have been instructing the private medical colleges to refund the money, they have not abided by the directives. The government too has not taken any action against the defiant institutions.

On September 23, following a protest from students, the government agreed to authorise the local administration to start action against medical colleges that didn't refund their money within a month. However, nearly two we...