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Adopt a flexible approach, Govt., colleges told

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, JULY 20. The recent Supreme Court rulings have placed medical education beyond the reach of the average person's children. The Government has to step in to support poor and meritorious students by coming to an arrangement with private medical colleges for this year, as time is running out.

This suggestion has come not from harried parents but from the Bangalore Medical College Alumni Association. The Supreme Court judgment in the Medical Council of India vs Madhu Singh cases has set the last date for admissions to medical colleges as August 31, and counselling for admissions has not yet started, according to V. Chandrasekharan, Joint Secretary of BMC Alumni Association.

The association has requested the State Government and the managements of private medical colleges to hold discussions in a spirit of give and take, with the objective of providing social justice so that meritorious students from any strata of society are not deprived of medical education if they want to pursue it.

The alumni association, which is of one of the oldest medical colleges in the State, expresses concern and dismay at the plight of aspiring medical students and the mental agony they and their parents are being subjected to. It does not augur well for civil society if its youth felt they are being deprived of their rights for which they have studied hard.

"All of us who were beneficiaries of subsidised medical education can proudly point out that a large number of BMC graduates are serving Karnataka as general practitioners, specialists and generalists under the Health and Family Welfare Services. An equally large number are serving the people as private practitioners and as specialists and super specialists,'' Dr. Chandrasekharan says.

The gradual neglect of government medical colleges the rapid mushrooming of private medical and dental colleges have led to uncontrolled migration of talent from government medical colleges to private institutions, the association points out.

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