Petition filed in SC to accommodate Indian medical students returned from Ukraine

Indian medical students who returned from Ukraine must be accommodated in Indian medical colleges to continue their education, urges a petition filed in Supreme Court.

One of the biggest challenges for the Indian medical students who returned from Ukraine is to continue their medical education here. Now, a petition has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking to accommodate these students and permit them to complete their education in India with appropriate Indian or foreign degrees as an emergency and one-time measure.

Parthvi Ahuja and Prapti Singh have filed the petition through advocate Anoop Prakash Awasthi.

“Accommodate the medical students returning from Ukraine and permit them to complete their education in Indian medical college with appropriate Indian or foreign degree as an emergency and one-time measure,” the petitioners have requested, as reported by The Print.

“In the alternative, coordinate with the Ukraine government and appropriate authorities in Ukraine and declare some central and/or state government/private medical colleges/some seats in the said colleges as overseas campuses of Ukrainian institutes for the purpose of continuation of studies as one-time emergency measure till normalcy prevails in Ukraine and the students may be taken back there for studies,” added the petitioners.

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