SC to govt: Create portal with admission info to help Ukraine students

SC to govt: Create portal with admission info to help Ukraine students

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com New Delhi 

As the Centre agreed to facilitate Ukrainereturned medical students to resume and complete their course from medical colleges of other countries which are recognised by Ukrainian universities, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to a create a portal and provide all information on seats available and procedure to take admission there to complete the remaining part of their course. Appearing before a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia, solicitor general Tushar Mehta submitted that it was not possible to admit the students in medical schools here but they can pursue their course from other countries and the government had talked with concerned authorities from Ukraine and other countries and the students would be able to complete their courses there and get their degrees.

Mehta said that as per the government’s academic mobility programme, these students can pursue the education from 29 countries including Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Belgium, Georgia, Kazakhstan as their medical education was compatible with Ukraine university. He said that studentswould be allowed to pursue their education there during the conflict. The bench then said that it would be better if the government provided all the information regarding its academic mobility programme to the students by creating a portal as there are around 20,000 affected students.

The court said that it would make the process transparent and students could apply for admission as per their choice. It asked the solicitor general to talk to the concerned authority and brief the court on September 23. The court was hearing a batch of petitions filed by affected students pleading the court to intervene to protect their interest as they could not go back to the war-torn country to complete the course.

The Centre, however, clearly told the court 20,000 students could not be accommodated in the country.