MNR Medical College students to be reallocated on the basis of merit and availability of seats: NMC informs High Court

Written by Barsha Misra Published On 2022-06-27T18:25:47+05:30 | Updated On 27 Jun 2022 6:25 PM IST

MNR Medical College students to be reallocated on the basis of merit and availability of seats: NMC informs High Court

Hyderabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has recently 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.

Filing an affidavit before the HC bench, the NMC undersecretary Prabhat Kumar further informed that as per the guidelines, 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.

NMC in the affidavit further made it clear that it is the responsibility of the State and the University for implementing the orders that had been issued by the Commission and transfer the PG medical students to other medical colleges by enrolling them in the courses they were pursuing, adds Deccan Chronicle.

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 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.

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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.

As per the latest media report by The New Indian Express, complying with the HC direction, NMC recently informed the court that it has already issued guidelines for reallocating the affected students of MNR Medical College to other institutes in Telangana. Submitting that the process of reallocation shall be done on the basis of merit of the students and also the availability of seats, NMC further informed that the guidelines for reallocation of students had been communicated to all the stakeholders on May 18, 2022.

The guidelines further state that if the colleges where the students are recommended for reallocation, have no vacant seats in the concerned course, then the seats of that specific medical course would be increased in that medical college as a one-time measure.

Apart from this, the guidelines have clarified that the maximum number of undergraduate students in each institute should not be more than 250 students and the students shall be distributed after proper consideration of the pre-existing infrastructure in the medical colleges where students have been recommended for transfer.

Besides, the rules mention that PG seats will also be given evenly to the appropriate departments of the medical institutes.

It has also been clarified in the guidelines that the supernumerary students in college departments would receive permission on a one-time basis only. When supernumerary seats have been established, the State shall prepare to transfer such students to the respective departments in other colleges and also may recommend the same to the NMC, mentioned the rules.

Finally, the NMC guidelines make it clear that the students are liable for paying a fee is they get transferred to other medical colleges in the State.

Meanwhile, while commenting on the matter, the State Health Minister T. Harish Rao told Deccan Chronicle that the State Government the KNRUHS wrote to NMC and asked it to adjust seats in other state institutes for the students who lost admissions.

He also said that the Commission must have conducted the surprise inspection before the commencement of the counselling process and the cancellation order must have been issued immediately so that the seats would have been allotted to other medical colleges.

Otherwise, considering the future of the already admitted students, NMC could have implemented its order in the next academic year and meanwhile the colleges could have been directed for improving their facilities in the teaching hospitals.

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Source : with inputs

Barsha Misra

Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.