Medical colleges under the Kathmandu University have urged the students to pay the hostel fees.

The medical colleges have asked the students to pay the hostel fees by going against the directive of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Kathmandu University and Nepal Medical Education Council.

Earlier, the council had issued a notice stating that the hostel was optional.

But, some medical colleges have been collecting hostel fees from the students while some have been urging the students to pay the fees.

The medical colleges have been saying that they would not allow the students to attend the classes if they do not pay the hostel fees.

Medical Education Struggle Committee Coordinator Manish Bhattarai said that Kathmandu Medical College and Biratnagar-based Nobel Medical College have been asking the students to pay the hostel fees.

“The medical colleges have been asking the students to pay hostel fees even though it is not mandatory. We had drawn the attention of the concerned authorities time and again,” he said.

The students have been staging demonstrations for the past few months accusing the medical colleges of charging more fees than the amount fixed by the government.