Kathmandu, June 6 -- Private medical colleges admitted to charging extra fees to their students, saying that the fee structure set by the government was not enough to run the colleges, at a meeting with the education and health sub-committee of Parliament on Wednesday.

The sub-committee formed had called the meeting following a number of complaints against private medical colleges who have been charging exorbitant fees to their students. The sub-committee, formed in the wake of the student protest in Gandaki Medical College, had asked medical students across the country to file complaints if their colleges were charging them extra fees. According to the sub-committee, it received around 70 complaints against various medical colleges.

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