The state government has constituted a single-member committee headed by retired Justice H N Narayan.

The committee has been developed to look into the disparity in fee structure for medical and dental courses for both government and private colleges coming under the COMED-K group of institutions and the Karnataka religious and linguistic minority group of institutions.

"The committee will be asked to fix the fee structure and recommend the same to the state government for approval within one or two months", Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda told reporters here on Friday.

In addition, he pointed that the decision to form the committee emerged in the wake of a running case in the High Court. A group of students petitioned the court billing the difference in fee as something akin to robbing one section to feed the other.

An appeal for a 10 per cent increase in government quota seats is being extended by these institutions, while the government itself would eventually seek to witness a revision in their seat sharing ratio from the current 42:58
(government: private) to 45:55.

Specialty units relating to heart, cancer and nephrology attached to the government medical colleges would be established in Hubli, Gulbarga and Belgaum, he added.