Exam uncertainty haunts 1,000 medical students in Maharashtra

The fate of over 1,000 students hangs in balance as the state dithers on taking a decision about colleges that admitted them in 2011-12 without mandatory permission from the centre. About 27 of the 30 colleges moved the Bombay HC against AYUSH. In the final hearing, about a year later, the colleges were forced to shut down. Classes were aborted. The university refused to let these candidates take their annual exam. The colleges then moved the Supreme Court but lost again to AYUSH.

The chief minister in April this year wrote to the health minister for increasing seating capacity in other recognized state Ayurveda and unani colleges of the state so that the 1,019 students could be transferred to those colleges.

Meanwhile, state officials said the state decided at a meeting that the aggrieved students be given respite by declaring them a special batch, and having the university prepare a special syllabus and hold exams. Candidates could be registered under the Maharashtra Medical Practioners’ Act, 1961, under which graduates on completion can practice, but only within the state of the state of Maharashtra. The students, on their part, are waiting.

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