Karnataka High Court directs NMC to take action against two medical colleges for illegally admitting students to PG courses

The High Court of Karnataka has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to initiate due measures against 2 aesculapian colleges for illegally admitting 4 students to post-graduate courses during 2023-24 directly, alternatively of admitting them done the mandatory counselling process conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).

A part seat comprising D.K. Singh and Venkatesh Naik T. passed the bid portion dismissing the petitions filed by 4 candidates — Tisa Robinson, Ashish Appasabeb Patil, Hemanth Kumar P. — who were admitting to PG courses by Kanachur Institute of Medical Sciences successful Mangaluru, and Nishanth G.V, who was admitted straight by K.V.G. Medical College and Hospital successful Sullia successful Dakshina Kannada district.

Role of NMC’s advocate

The seat besides said that it was ‘surprised and aghast’ by the submissions made by the NMC’s advocate, who had, connected September 1, told the tribunal that admittance of these 4 students would beryllium regularised arsenic the colleges were compelled to admit them arsenic KEA failed to capable up these PG seats done counselling.

As the seat recovered the submission of NMC’s advocator contrary to the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulation (PGMER) 2023, it directed the chairperson of NMC to record an affidavit astir legality of admissions made by colleges directly.

The NMC filed an affidavit making it wide that admittance of petitioners by the Kanachur and KVG colleges were amerciable arsenic they were admitted without going done the prescribed counselling process arsenic per the regularisation No.4.3 of the PGMER-2023.

NMC should woody with it

“We bash not cognize whether the counsel for the statutory assemblage tin marque submissions against the statutory medicine and against the basal of the statutory authority. We bash not privation to accidental much successful our order, but it is for the NMC to see the substance and woody with it appropriately. However, we bash not o.k. the mode of the counsel for NMC to code the tribunal against the statutory medicine and the basal of the NMC,” the seat observed successful its last bid passed connected September 10.

The seat besides pointed retired that Kanachur assemblage had a mendacious affidavit earlier the tribunal astir connection of surrender of 2 seats to the Directorate of Medical Education.