BENGALURU: A vacation bench of the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday has directed the state government to register students who have completed their MBBS/ PG/ super specialty courses in medicine as medical practitioners before the Karnataka Medical Council (KMC), even if they have not undergone mandatory one-year rural service.
Several of them had approached the court after the state government decided to temporarily suspended the registration in the KMC. The decision further said that those who have completed internship on or July 24, 2015 will be considered for registration.
The court passed the directions while clarifying that the high court has already stayed the the Karnataka Compulsory Service Training by Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act, 2012, which stipulates a compulsory rural stint for those completing medical courses.
The court had made it that the high court has already stayed the Compulsory Rural Service Act with directions to colleges to hand over degree certificates to students with the condition that students will have to return and complete their posting (one year compulsory rural service) if the order goes against them.
