CHITWAN, Sept. 12 -- Police have arrested 16 agitating students from Bhatarpur Medical College including Prakash Chand, son of underground Communist Party Nepal chief Netra Bikram Chand.
Students, including Prakash, were protesting on the premises of the medical college for the last 10 days accusing the college administration of charging higher admission fees from students aspiring to pursue medical degrees. Chand is an MBBS student at the same college.
The government has fixed Rs 4.2 million as fees for MBBS studies for medical college outside the Kathmandu Valley. Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur Malla said that they are currently interrogating 11 male and five female students arrested from the college premises. He further informed ...