Chennai: A private medical college in Mamallapuram has been issued a discharge notice to cancel the admission of around 36 students, allegedly done in the violation of the norms of the Medical Council of India.
Admissions of around 500 students studying in some private colleges in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu will soon be cancelled as students had allegedly not appeared for the Neet (Neet) last year.
In a published report, according to MCI secretary Dr Reena Nayyar, around 17 to 18 private colleges in UP and one college in Tamil Nadu had been issued notices asking them to cancel admissions.
Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Medical Sciences (PRIMS), in Mamallapuram, which is affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, was given an instant discharge notice by Vice Chancellor of the University Dr S Geethalakshmi on the orders of the MCI.
“The students were supposed to have appeared for the test and cleared it and taken the ranking to get admitted. Even now they have the opportunity of becoming a doctor, provided they sit for the Neet and take the merit and get admitted,” said Dr C V Bhirmanandham, Vice President, MCI.
“I had instructed the vice chancellor of the University concerned to send a notice to the college, the students and also to their parents as the students may be minors. I had also asked her to send a report about the same to the MCI. We have a monitoring committee that goes through all the admissions in India and we find out whether the candidate is eligible to get admitted and if the reservation policy of the state is followed,” he said, adding that, “If we find that the Supreme Court or the MCI regulations are not being followed, we tell them to discharge.”
Stating that the college, the university and the MCI have discharged the students, Dr Geethalakshmi said, “The college had violated the norms in admitting these students.”
