HC relief to Telangana PG medicos, NMC to relocate students within four weeks

Hyderabad: Coming to the rescue of Postgraduate medical students belonging to MNR medical college and Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences, whose admission got cancelled by the National Medical Commission (NMC) due to lack of infrastructure in the institutes, the Telangana High Court on Monday has directed the NMC to relocate these medicos to other medical colleges in the State.

While passing orders in two petitions filed by the PG medicos of these institutes, a HC division bench comprising Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar directed NMC to complete the task within four weeks with the help of the State Government and the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).

The reallocation process will take place after taking into account the pre-existing infrastructure of the medical colleges where the students will be transferred. In case of the PG medical seats, the distribution will be made in an equitable manner among the respective departments of the medical colleges.

The crisis regarding the medical seats began after the National Medical Commission (NMC) cancelled MBBS and PG medical admission in three private medical colleges in Telangana following a surprise inspection. It resulted in a huge decrease in the total number of seats. In case of MNR Medical College and Hospital, both MBBS and PG admissions had been cancelled. NMC further cancelled PG medical seats in Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences. Apart from this, TRR Institute of Medical Sciences, Patancheru lost its letter of permission for the first renewal and second batch of admission.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that unsure about their future, recently around 48 such affected PG medical students belonging to MNR Medical College had approached a Division bench of Telangana High Court and sought a direction on the NMC for issuing guidelines to the State for reallocating the students to existing Government and Private Medical Colleges in the State within a specific and short time frame without affecting the Academic year of the Petitioners.

The students also questioned the delay on the part of the Telangana State and KNRUHS for reallocating the students. They claimed that the authorities were not taking the necessary steps to solve this issue even after 20 days have passed since the date of cancellation of the PG admissions in MNR College.

After taking note of the matter, the High Court recently sought to know from the Apex Medical Body and the State Government about the process by which they propose to shift students to other medical colleges so that the interest of the students stay protected.

Consequently, NMC informed the Telangana High Court that the guidelines for reallocating students of MNR Medical College have already been communicated to all the stakeholders on May 18, 2022.

At that time, NMC had informed that the students shall be reallocated on the basis of their merit and the availability of seats in the medical college where they are being reallocated.

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As per the latest media report by Deccan Chronicle, during the last hearing of the case on Monday, the counsel for the students Sama Sandeep Reddy explained to the court about the miserable situation of the affected students, who were facing uncertainty regarding future as already 45 had passed after the NMC decision. 

Referring to the condition of the students, the counsel urged the court for issuing orders to relocate the students. Taking note of the matter the HC bench directed NMC to relocate the students to existing government or private medical colleges in Telangana within four weeks.

The New Indian Express adds that as per the rules for reallocation, the supernumerary students would be allowed in the college departments only once. After establishing such seats, the State may take a call for transferring such students to appropriate departments in other institutes. For this, the State may submit a recommendation to NMC.

As per the rules, the students will be liable to pay a fee if they are moved to another medical colleges in the state.

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