Cannot give seats in India to MBBS students from Ukraine: Govt. India News – Times of India

New Delhi: The central government gave this information on Thursday. Supreme court that Indian students doing MBBS UkraineThose whose studies were interrupted due to war and subsequent evacuation will not be admitted to medical colleges in India as it would amount to ‘backdoor entry’ to less meritorious students.
It framed an exception for MBBS final year students and said, “Indian students, who were in the final year of their undergraduate medical courses and had to leave their foreign medical institutions due to COVID-19 or Russia-Ukraine conflict and subsequently completed in have been allowed to appear in their studies, subject to obtaining a certificate of completion from their respective institutions on or before 30 June foreign medical graduate exam (FMGE).”
It said that on clearing the FMGE, the students would have to undergo compulsory rotating medical internship for a period of two years in India for clinical training which they could not join during the undergraduate medical course in foreign institutions as well as To acquaint them with the practice of medicine in Indian conditions. bench headed by justice Hemant GuptaOn the request of advocate Swati Ghildiyal, they agreed to adjourn the matter for a day till Friday.
Regarding the first to fourth year of MBBS course in Ukraine, the Center stated that the academic mobility program was introduced for those who could not continue their studies due to the war-like situation in Ukraine, to obtain permission from the parent institutions. to be transferred to another location. Institution in Ukraine or other countries.
“The phrase ‘global mobility’ cannot be used to refer to the accommodation of these students in Indian colleges/universities as the existing regulations in India do not allow migration of students from foreign universities to India. Access to Public Information on Academic Mobility cannot be used as backdoor admission in Indian colleges/universities offering undergraduate courses,” it said.
It refuted the allegations of petitioners in SC that candidates with ‘zero’ scores in NEET-UG examinations got admission in private medical colleges, the Center said in NEET conducted from 2018, only those who had secured more than 50 per cent marks were eligible to take admission in Indian medical institutions.
It said that these students had gone abroad to study medicine due to poor scores in NEET exam and affordability of education in those countries. “If these students with poor merit are allowed admission in premier medical colleges of India by default, there may be several lawsuits from aspiring students who could not get admission due to poor scores in NEET,” it said. .
If one talks about the affordability of medical education, these students may not be able to afford the fees of private medical colleges in India, it said. Admitting these students to medical colleges in India will “severely hamper the standards of medical education in the country,” it said.