WHY MANUSHI CHHILLAR HAD TO LEAVE HER DREAM OF BECOMING A DOCTOR?

Life took a massive turn for Manushi Chhillar who dreamt of becoming a doctor one day, was crowned the Miss World in the year 2017.

Recently opening up about why she didn’t pursue her medical education, the Former Miss World spoke to the Hindustan Times commenting on how life had other plans for her and going back to the medical college was not just in the cards.

Manushi had taken admission as an MBBS student at Haryana-based Bhagat Phool Singh Women's Medical College in the academic year 2015-16. After winning the title of Miss India in June 2017, she applied for leave. She did not report to the medical college for months.

Since she has been residing in Mumbai and her family shifted there post the Miss World title, she wanted to pursue the remaining part of her undergraduate course in Mumbai.

For this, she had filed an application seeking migration from Bhagat Phool Singh Women's Medical College to a Mumbai-based medical college and was given a No Objection Certificate (NOC) by the Pandit BD Sharma University Rohtak.

However, the said NOC became a matter of controversy after it was alleged it was issued by putting the rules on hold for her and without taking permission from the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI), now National Medical Commission (NMC).

The matter of her migration was further brought up during the apex regulator meeting on 13th June 2019 where the MCI Board of Governors had denied her permission for the said migration.

Eventually, Manushi had to leave her MBBS studies midway. However, her career outside academics progressed in the form of her big Bollywood debut next to Akshay Kumar last year in the movie- Samrat Prithviraj, top brand deals, her Cannes debut this year and an upcoming movie Tehran next to John Abraham.