New Delhi, July 24 -- India's National Medical Commission (NMC), the country's apex medical education regulator, has proposed to overhaul rules and introduce a fee to recognize medical courses offered by universities abroad.

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 M...