Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao heaved a sigh of relief and announced that the state would fund the studies of 700 students from the state, who had gone there. Ukraine To study medicine.
Why in an ongoing debate Indian student Going abroad for studies, which was also exposed by the grieving father of Naveen Shekharappa Gyangoudar, the student killed in Russian shelling from Kharkiv, KCR, announced in the Telangana Assembly today.
KCR said 740 students from the state were studying medicine in Ukraine and have now returned from the war-torn country. “We will write to the Center saying we will support them,” Rao said in his address.
India recently evacuated over 18,000 students from war-torn Ukraine through Operation Ganga who had gone there to study medicine. This incident in particular set up a debate about the large scale of Indian students going abroad for study.
It has been highlighted that the cost of studying medicine in an Eastern European country is cheaper than studying medicine in India.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has been continuing for the last 21 days, came as a setback to the Indian students in Ukraine. They were left stranded without adequate food, water and in some cases shelter in the war-torn country after the Ukrainian government closed their airspace on 24 February.
Regarding the debate of Indian students studying abroad, some argued that only those students who fail to clear the medical entrance examination in India go abroad, others argued that all eligible candidates in India should There are not enough medical seats to accommodate.
The controversy escalated after Union Minister Pralhad Joshi’s remark that students study abroad “after failing to qualify” in competitive examinations in India.
This comment drew a sharp reaction from Naveen Shekharappa Gyangoudar’s father, who drew attention to the high cost of studying medicine in India. His son, he said, was an intelligent student who had to move to Ukraine because he could not afford to study medicine in India.
“Here the donation is very high for those who want to study medicine. Intelligent students will go abroad to study, and they spend less amount than in Karnataka. Here, a student has to get a medical seat under quota. Crores will have to be paid,” he said.
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