Pondy medical students get relief from high court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: In a big relief to scores of postgraduate medical students who were ordered by the Medical Council of India to be discharged from two Puducherry-based medical colleges, the Madras high court stayed the MCI orders till February 6.
Last month, the MCI had directed three medical colleges in Puducherry to discharge a total of 105 postgraduate medical students citing various irregularities in their admissions.
On Tuesday, Justice R Mahadevan, hearing the writ petitions of students studying at Sri Venkateshwara Medical College and Hospital and Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, granted the interim stay saying, “In the interest of justice, there shall be an order of interim stay till February 6, 2018." He then directed the MCI, the Centre and the Puducherry government to file their counter-affidavits.
It was MCI’s contention that those students had been admitted in violation of norms, and that they did not fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria as fixed by MCI.
The colleges concerned, it said, had not sent the correct list of eligible candidates to MCI.
Countering the charges, the students submitted that MCI’s December 21, 2017 order, confirming its own earlier order dated July 24, 2017, asking Venkateswara Medical College to discharge its PG medical students of 2017-18 batch, had been passed without any notice to the students concerned, and without affording them the opportunity of personal hearing. Hence it is vitiated, they said.
The only reason cited by MCI is that names of the students were found in the list provided by the nodal agency – CENTAC.
Denying the charge, the students submitted that the MCI had failed to see that they had directly reported PIMS on the instructions given by CENTAC authorities. CENTAC issued the said instructions as per the directive of the Union ministry of health and family welfare.
They said PG medical seats were vacant at PIMS and added that either there were no takers at all for the seats or candidates originally allotted had not reported for admission.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: In a big relief to scores of postgraduate medical students who were ordered by the Medical Council of India to be discharged from two Puducherry-based medical colleges, the Madras high court stayed the MCI orders till February 6.
Last month, the MCI had directed three medical colleges in Puducherry to discharge a total of 105 postgraduate medical students citing various irregularities in their admissions.
On Tuesday, Justice R Mahadevan, hearing the writ petitions of students studying at Sri Venkateshwara Medical College and Hospital and Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, granted the interim stay saying, “In the interest of justice, there shall be an order of interim stay till February 6, 2018." He then directed the MCI, the Centre and the Puducherry government to file their counter-affidavits.
It was MCI’s contention that those students had been admitted in violation of norms, and that they did not fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria as fixed by MCI.
The colleges concerned, it said, had not sent the correct list of eligible candidates to MCI.
Countering the charges, the students submitted that MCI’s December 21, 2017 order, confirming its own earlier order dated July 24, 2017, asking Venkateswara Medical College to discharge its PG medical students of 2017-18 batch, had been passed without any notice to the students concerned, and without affording them the opportunity of personal hearing. Hence it is vitiated, they said.
The only reason cited by MCI is that names of the students were found in the list provided by the nodal agency – CENTAC.
Denying the charge, the students submitted that the MCI had failed to see that they had directly reported PIMS on the instructions given by CENTAC authorities. CENTAC issued the said instructions as per the directive of the Union ministry of health and family welfare.
They said PG medical seats were vacant at PIMS and added that either there were no takers at all for the seats or candidates originally allotted had not reported for admission.
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