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Only five Ukraine returnees medicos in Kerala apply to resume studies in Russia

Only five Ukraine returnees medicos in Kerala apply to resume studies in Russia

Quotas getting filled fast | Many believe they will be allowed to resume course in India

Published: 07th July 2022 06:00 AM

Malayali students stuck in Ukraine | FILE PIC

By Cynthia Chandran

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It looks like the stranded medical students in the state from war-torn Ukraine are not interested in taking advantage of the policy decision extended by Roman Babushkin, the deputy chief of mission, Russian Embassy in New Delhi, to pursue their stalled education from various Russian universities. Only five students out of 3,379 Malayali medicos from Ukraine have evinced keen interest in pursuing their medical course after the deadline ended on Tuesday, much to the disbelief of Ratheesh C Nair, Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation, Thiruvananthapuram.

It was on June 12 that Roman Babushkin announced the Russian Government’s policy decision during his visit to the capital city. With uncertainty looming large over the future of medical students who had returned from Ukraine following the National Medical Council regulations denying them the opportunity to study in India, the Russian envoy’s announcement was expected to be seen by the students as a huge relief.

It saw the Russian Consul office in Thiruvananthapuram starting an official WhatsApp group which saw 550 students initially approaching them. They were asked to provide their passport details, mark list of their medical exams during their stint in Ukraine and also their NEET score card. Ratheesh C Nair told TNIE that the Consul office was keen on helping the stranded medical students to pursue their course from 28 Russian medical universities.

“We started an official WhatsApp group and informed them of the July 5 deadline. Majority of them didn’t show any interest as they are under the belief that they will be allowed to resume their medical course in India. The irony is that only eight of them had come up with the requisite documents and after the scrutiny, five of them were found eligible to pursue their medical course from Russia,” said Ratheesh C Nair.

He will be forwarding the five students’ details to their Chennai Consular office which will be taking it forward. It is learned that the stranded students are hoping that the Centre will take a favourable decision after the West Bengal Government had allowed all 394 medical students who returned from Ukraine to undergo “observership” in different government medical colleges in the state. Another senior official of the Russian Consul office told TNIE that already the Russian medical universities have earmarked seats for students from Egypt.

“This will only affect the prospects of Indian medical students who have returned from Ukraine as the quotas are getting over fast. Russia was the most ideal destination for them as the curriculum is the same as in Ukraine. Currently it is vacation time in Russian universities and the next academic season is expected to start in September,” said a senior official at the Russian Consul Office.

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8 July 2022 7:07 PM

The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking a direction to the State Government to enhance the age of superannuation of the employees of the State of U.P. from 60 years to 62 years.

Stressing that in service matters, no public interest litigation is maintainable, the Bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Rajnish Kumar dsimissed the plea noting that the petitioner was a complete stranger and was seeking alteration in the conditions of service of the employees of the State Government.

Essentially, one Vinod Kumar Garg had moved the instant PIL plea seeking to enhance the age of superannuation of the employees of the State of U.P. from 60 years to 62 years.

At the outset, the Court noted that it was strange that such a petition had been filed purportedly in public interest. The Court also noted that the petitioner was a complete stranger so far as the conditions of service of the employees of the State Government were concerned.

"It is also noticeable that the Hon'ble Supreme Court in more than one cases has categorically held that in service matters, no public interest litigation will be maintainable," the Court remarked as it referred to Apex Court's rulings in the cases of Dr. Duryodhan Sahu and others versus Jitendra Kumar Mishra and others (1998) 7 SCC 273 and Dattaraj Nathuji Thaware vs. State of Maharashtra and others (2005) 1 SCC 590.

"When we closely examine the averments made in the writ petition, what we find is that the petitioner is a complete stranger and has in fact sought alteration in the conditions of service of the employees of the State Government, hence we are not inclined to entertain the instant writ petition," the Court further added as it dismissed the plea.

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Indian students who fled Ukraine to protest at Jantar Mantar today

Indian students who fled Ukraine to protest at Jantar Mantar today

Indian students who returned home from Ukraine about 3 months ago, will sit on a hunger strike along with their parents at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Sunday so that the PM Modi looks at their demands

IANS | New Delhi Last Updated at June 26, 2022 09:12 IST

Indian students who returned home from Ukraine about three months ago, will sit on a hunger strike along with their parents at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Sunday so that the Prime Minister looks at their demands and problems.

This demonstration will be for one day and 300 people have been allowed by the police.

The Parents' Association of Ukraine Medical Students (PAUMS) has made it clear that the students and their families will be on hunger strike on Sunday. "The government is now forcing us to agitate. We have been protesting peacefully till now, but if the government does not pay attention to us, then the families will be forced to commit suicide," it said.

Trisha Sagar, who arrived home from Venice, Ukraine, is studying in her second year. "We were brought home under Operation Ganga, we thank the Prime Minister. But if we were to be left like this, then we need not have been called back. If we go to the senior people of the National Medical Commission (NMC) with our demands, they talk inappropriately, we are humiliated," she said.

"We were told, 'you don't deserve to study here, you can't become a doctor here. You didn't go to Ukraine asking us.' We would like to ask them whether their permission is needed while going abroad? Would they not know that we are going there for studies? Then why do they misbehave with us?," Trisha questioned.

In Ukraine, medical studies are completed in six years. After this, the students have to do one year compulsory internship. Then one year supervised internship is also required to be eligible for Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) to practice in India and obtain a license. After that one has to qualify the FMG exam.

Ritvik Varshney, who was studying medicine in the fourth year in Kharkiv, Ukraine, told IANS that, "We are now forced to sit on a fast, we are in India for the last three months but so far no decision has been taken from the government's side about our studies. The ministers of the government who had come to receive us had promised that we would ensure your future too."

"So far we have not received any kind of news about our future, if the government gives us a stipulated time, then we should feel a little satisfied. But this has not happened. One of our delegations also went to NMC, but there also we didn't get a satisfactory answer," he stated.

He added, "Students who have just the last few months of study left suddenly had to return home, then they go into depression. We have already submitted our demands to MLAs, MPs and other officials; we have also protested. But now we are forced to sit on hunger strike."

The students and their family members had protested outside the gates of the National Medical Commission central office in Delhi on Friday. Pankaj Dheeraj, national general secretary of PAUMS, said, "We all have been making a demand to the PM for the past two and a half months to provide them future medical education in the country itself, in a peaceful manner. Now the government should take our peaceful protest us seriously."

"On Sunday, medical students from across the country are going to start a 'fast' at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. On the PIL in the Supreme Court also, the Central Government has to file a positive and humanitarian response on June 29," he said.

He added, "Amidst the Ukraine-Russia war disaster, about three months ago, the students returned home after saving their lives, the government helped to bring them here, but now the government will have to think about their further studies. They will have to be provided medical studies in India itself."

The number of students varies in different states of the country -- Delhi has 150 medical students who returned home due to the Ukraine war, Haryana 1,400, Himachal Pradesh 482, Odisha 570, Kerala 3,697, Maharashtra 1,200, Karnataka 760, Uttar Pradesh 2,400, Uttarakhand 280, Bihar 1,050, Gujarat 1,300, Punjab 549, Jharkhand 184 and West Bengal 392.

--IANS

Ukraine-returned medical students stage hunger strike, demand admission in Indian colleges

Ukraine-returned medical students stage hunger strike, demand admission in Indian colleges

Medical students stage a protest at Jantar Mantar demanding admission to medical colleges as a one-time measure.

Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team

|Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Jun 26, 2022, 10:46 PM IST

Ukrain return students stage hunger strike at Jantar Mantar | Photo: PTI

As many as 350 Medical students, evacuated from war-torn Ukraine stage a protest at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, demanding admission to medical colleges as a one-time measure. The students said that there are about 12,000 students, barring those in their final year and as there are at least 600 medical colleges in the country, each institution needed to accommodate only around 20 students.

Parents' Association of Ukraine Medical Students (PAUMS) president RB Gupta said, "We also held a march at Jantar Mantar. We want the government's help in accommodating our children. My child was studying for the second year in Ivano (Ukrainian city). We are only requesting the government that these children be accommodated as a one-time measure." PAUMS has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard.

"There are 15,000-16,000 (approx.), medical students, out of which around 3,000 are in the final year for whom the NMC (National Medical Commission) has permitted them to complete their internship in India, which is a breath of relief. Now, this leaves us with 12,000 approx. Students to be given admission. There are around 606 medical colleges in India, which means each college will have to accommodate only 20-21 students," the letter read.

"This is an unprecedented war situation which needs extraordinary thinking, steps and solution. We are hopeful that a lenient view shall be taken while taking a decision in regard to accommodating all Ukraine-returned MBBS students and our request may be well taken and acted accordingly. We will be highly obliged," it added.

Thousands of students from India studying in various medical colleges across Ukraine had to abandon their courses and return home after Russian forces launched an offensive against the eastern European country. In April, too, parents of MBBS students had staged a protest at Jantar Mantar demanding the government's intervention in accommodating their children in medical colleges.

In March, a Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions on the issue of admission and continuation of their studies in India. The plea also sought directions from the Centre to provide a medical subject equivalency orientation programme for such students.

The Indian Medical Association has also recommended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that such students be accommodated in Indian medical colleges as a one-time measure.

In a letter to Modi on March 4, the IMA had said such students should be permitted to go to Indian medical colleges for the remainder of their MBBS courses through an "appropriate disbursed distribution", but it should not be seen as an increase in the annual intake capacity.

(With inputs from PTI)

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NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY

PUBLIC NOTICE

28 June 2022

Sub: Advance Intimation for Allotment of Examination City to the Applicants of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) - Reg.

National Testing Agency is conducting the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) at different Centres located in 546 cities throughout the country and 14 Cities in Outside India on 17 July 2022 (Sunday) from 02:00 P.M. to 05:20 P.M. The candidates are required to check/download their Examination City Intimation slip of NEET (UG) - 2022 (using their Application No. and Date of Birth) from the website https://neet.nta.nic.in/ w.e.f. 28 June 2022 and go through the instructions contained therein as well as in the Information Bulletin.

The Candidates may please note that this is NOT the Admit Card for NEET (UG) - 2022. This is an advance information for the allotment of the City where the Examination Centre will be located, to facilitate the candidates.

The Admit Card of NEET (UG) – 2022 shall be issued later. In case any candidate faces difficulty in downloading/checking the Examination City Intimation Slip for NEET (UG) - 2022, he/she can contact on 011-40759000 or e-mail at neet@nta.ac.in. The Candidates are advised to keep visiting the official websites of NTA (www.nta.ac.in) and (https://neet.nta.nic.in/) for the latest updates. (Dr. Sadhana Parashar) Senior Director (Exams)