Maharashtra government to offer online courses, allow Ukraine returnees to appear in NEET

Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) is ready to provide online education to medical students returning from war-torn Ukraine and some of them may even be allowed to appear in NEET, officials said on Wednesday. He said that the Medical Education Minister Amit Deshmukh held a meeting here to discuss how these students who were in limbo due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be helped.

The meeting was attended by Higher and Technical Education Minister Uday Samant, MUHS Vice Chancellor Lt Gen (Retd) Madhuri Kanitkar and Shiv Sena Legislative Council member Manisha Kayande. MUHS has expressed its desire to conduct medical courses for students who have returned from Ukraine as they have stopped their education due to the Russian invasion. These wounds are online courses,” Kayande later told reporters.

It will cover the parts of the syllabus that the students may have missed. We are also giving some other options to the students and all possibilities are being assessed, he said. Those who had taken admission in medical colleges in Ukraine only on or after November 2021 may also be allowed to appear for National Eligibility cum Admission (NEET). ), the entrance test for medical courses in India, said an official present at the meeting. “The proposal is still in its initial stages and we are all working on it,” he said. The official said that of the 18,000 Indian students studying in Ukraine, around 2,000 were from Maharashtra.