INC moves HC for powers to grant recognition to nursing institutes
Verdict of single judge said INC had no such authority
The Indian Nursing Council (INC) and several nursing colleges situated in the State have on Monday moved a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court questioning the single judge’s verdict, which had declared that the INC has no authority to grant recognition to institutions imparting nursing training.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar, before whom the appeals filed by Sri Adichunchanagiri College of Nursing and 20 other nursing institutes came up for hearing, adjourned further hearing till August 21.
The Bench also said that an appeal, filed separately by the INC, would also be heard alongside.
Earlier, counsel for the nursing institutes pointed out to the Bench that the future of a large number of students, including around 1,500 students from African countries, is in jeopardy as they cannot get jobs in any other State other than Karnataka, or abroad.
It was also contended that even the institutes will not get candidates to pursue nursing courses when it does not lead to jobs outside Karnataka.
The single judge’s verdict had upheld the government’s December 14 notification, which had stated that the power to grant recognition, impart training in nursing, and fixation of intake vests with the State government, the Karnataka State Nursing Council, and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, and not with the INC.
The INC, in its petition, asserted that it has the authority to regulate nursing institutes across the country.
The single judge’s verdict had also declared that all such materials, from which it could infer that recognition is to be obtained from the INC, stands withdrawn from the INC’s website forthwith.
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