In a relief to 60 students who could not pursue studies for the entire academic year despite being admitted to the first year MBBS course in Tumakuru-based Sridevi Medical College over the issue of recognition, the High Court of Karnataka on Thursday allowed them to be admitted to four government medical colleges for the academic year 2016–17.
A Division Bench comprising Justice N. Kumar and Justice S. Sujatha issued the direction after the State government came forward with a solution in the interests of the students who lost a year of study without any fault of theirs.
These students will now be admitted in government medical colleges at Karwar, Madikeri, Chamarajanagar and Gadag, and for this alternative arrangement, Sridevi Medical College will have to surrender 60 seats to the government quota in the event the college gets recognition from the Medical Council of India.
The college, after the MCI declined recognition for not complying with certain guidelines, had approached the High Court, which through an interim order had permitted admission to 60 seats for the first-year MBBS course for the academic year 2015–16, subject to the outcome of the petition. As the Supreme Court stayed the High Court’s interim order, the college could not conduct classes for these students.
All these students had secured admission to different medical colleges in their first round of counselling through the Karnataka Examinations Authority but later opted for this college when the seats were made available based on the High Court’s order. They were not aware of the rider imposed by the court that admissions would be subject to the outcome of the petition filed by the college.
High Court allows them
to be admitted to four government colleges
for the academic year 2016–17
