From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Centre has declined admissions to the Indian students evacuated from Ukraine in the medical colleges of India to complete their medical studies.
The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Hemant Gupta agreed to list the matter on Friday for further hearing on the petitions filed by the evacuated students, claiming that there are about 14,000 such students whose careers stand halted. The petitions have sought one-time measure of admission in the equivalent academic year on the medical colleges in India.
In its affidavit, the Centre has said heeding to their demand would “seriously hamper the standards of medical education in the country” since it dehors the provisions of the 1956 Indian Medical Council Act as well as the 2019 National Medical Commission Act.
It said most of the aggrieved students had gone to the foreign countries for two reasons: Poor merit in the NEET exam and affordability of medical education in the foreign countries. It said there will be several litigations from those candidates who cannot get seats in the premier medical colleges in India if the evacuated students are allowed admissions.
Moreover, it said if these students are allocated private medical colleges in India, they may not be able to afford the higher fee structure of the concerned institution. The affidavit referred to a notification issued on September 6 that the government has no objection for the academic mobility in terms of temporary relocation of the affected foreign students in different foreign countries.
