Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 24: The state high court has come to the rescue of 60 medical students who lost a year after recognition given to Shridevi Medical College Tumakuru, in which they had got admission last year, was withdrawn by Medical Council of India. These students have already lost a year of education.

A division bench of the high court comprising Justice N Kumar and Justice S Sujatha ordered the government to accommodate these students in the four newly opened government medical colleges at Karwar, Chamarajanagara, Madikeri and Gadag. 

The bench noted that these medical students have suffered for a year for a mistake they had not committed. Therefore, it is improper to  keep them lingering for long, it opined. The government too has evinced interest to respond to their problems. Therefore, these students should be transferred to these four government medical college, it said in its order. 

These 60 students had got admission into Shridevi Medical College through common entrance test conducted by Karnataka Examination Authority last year. However, Medical Council of India had cancelled the recognition given to the college as it failed to meet some prescribed yardsticks.