No new nursing college in state during 2024-25 session: Govt to HC

No new nursing college in state during 2024-25 session: Govt to HC 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 08.12.2024 BHOPAL 

Bhopal/Jabalpur : The state govt informed a division bench of the MP High Court, which is hearing a petition seeking action against "fake" nursing colleges operating in large numbers in the state, that no new nursing colleges were allowed to open in the academic session 2024-25. Only the old colleges found eligible by the CBI were given recognition to operate. Meanwhile, the bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi and Justice AK Paliwal asked the state govt to present a report on the action taken against the registrar of the MP Nursing Council, Anita Chand, for irregularities committed by her before deferring the case for hearing to Dec 12. 

During the previous hearing of the case, the court ordered that all the eligible nursing and paramedical colleges in the state for the academic session 2024-25 would be affiliated with MP Medical University. The court also directed that the list and shortcomings found in the nursing colleges declared 'unfit' to operate by the CBI should be mentioned on the website of the MP Nursing Council. 

President of the Law Students' Union, Vishal Baghel, filed a PIL raising the issue of a large number of 'fake' nursing colleges operating in the state, particularly in the tribal areas, which do not have the requisite infrastructure or manpower to run the nursing courses. During the hearing of the petition, the high court ordered a probe by the CBI into the credentials of all the nursing colleges in the state and whether they have the requisite facilities to operate nursing courses. The CBI gave a clean chit to 169 nursing colleges, pointed out deficiencies in 74 but said they could be rectified, and found 65 nursing colleges unfit to operate. Later, the court constituted a threemember committee headed by a retired HC judge, Justice Rajendra Kumar Shrivastava, to examine whether the 74 nursing colleges, which the CBI found to have deficiencies 

In the meantime, some CBI officials involved in the probe were arrested by the CBI Delhi team on charges of demanding a bribe from proprietors of the nursing colleges to give their colleges a fitness certificate, thereby putting the probe and its outcome in question. .