thiruvananthapuramthe opposition disrupted the proceedings in the assembly on tuesday and staged a walkout to protest the feehike in medical post graduate courses in selffinancing colleges and alleged a governmentprivate management nexus in fleecing students in an adjournment motion moved by congress mla v t balram the opposition cited an increase in pg course fees from rs 65 lakh to rs 14 lakh and a threefold increase in the fee for nonclinical pg courses the ldf governments second season of selffinancing robbery has begun and there could soon be a similar fee hike in the mbbs course as well the congress mla saidthough health minister k k shylaja argued that the hike was necessitated by the supreme courts direction to maintain a unified fee structure and it was in accordance with the calculations done by the fee regulatory committee opposition leader ramesh chennithala said the government yielded to the demands of selffinancing college managements in a single sittingthe health minister is now talking like an accountant of selffinancing college managements is the government ready to provide scholarships to poor students and direct the managements to follow suit not a single medical college is in loss as its a lucrative business there should be equal opportunity for poor students to do postgraduate courses he saidchennithala said that the hike will also put pressure on state exchequer as the government will have to pay the fee of scst students the government is now trying to evade responsibility by putting the onus on the fee regulatory committee he saidthe health minister meanwhile said the hike will not affect students in a big way as the government will make sure that the colleges disburse the increased stipend rs 516 lakh per year promptly with a centralised allotment in place the colleges wont be able to charge capitation fee she saidthe minister also said a deal on pg fee structure has been reached only with christian managements other managements are demanding to fix the fee at rs 1520 lakh which the government will not yield to she added