Plea opposes delinking nursing from med univ

Plea opposes delinking nursing from med univ 

NURSING SCAM 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 25.09.2024v 

Bhopal/Jabalpur : Vishal Baghel, the petitioner in the public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the MP high court over fake nursing colleges operating in large numbers in MP, on Tuesday presented an application before the division bench, opposing the move of the state govt to disaffiliate nursing and paramedical courses from the MP Medical University. 

The state govt sought time from the court to respond to the application. The Indian Nursing Council (INC) also requested time to present an affidavit in support of its reply submitted in the court earlier. The court, granting time to the state govt and the INC, deferred the hearing of the case for four weeks. 

President of the Law Students' Union, Vishal Baghel, in his petition, had raised the issue of a large number of fake nursing colleges operating in the state, particularly in the tribal areas, which don't have the requisite infrastructure or manpower to run the nursing courses. In its probe, the CBI had given a clean chit to 169 nursing colleges, pointed out deficiencies in 74 but said that they can be rectified, and found 65 nursing colleges as unfit to operate. 

Later, the court constituted a three-member committee headed by a retired HC judge , to examine the 74 nursing colleges. The 65 nursing colleges found unsuitable for operation will be shut, and their students will not be adjusted in any other college, the court had said. 

In the meanwhile, CBI officials involved in the probe were arrested by the CBI Delhi team on charges of demanding a bribe from proprietors of nursing colleges to give their colleges a fitness certificate, thereby putting the probe in question. Following this, HC ordered a fresh probe into the 169 colleges given a clean chit by the CBI. The court had further asked the CBI to inspect the colleges in the presence of a judicial magistrate.