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Nursing students reallocated

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Pondicherry: The Pondicherry Administration has taken steps to relieve students of the privately managed Vinayaka Mission College of Paramedical Sciences at Krimambakkam near here of the sufferings to study B.Sc Nursing course in the college. The college has been functioning under the aegis of the Salem-based Medical Educational and Charitable Trust. It had admitted 107 students to B.Sc Nursing course during the academic years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 to the course "without getting prior affiliation" from the Pondicherry University for commencement of the courses and also for admission of students.

These students had joined the college either through management quota or through Centralised Admission Committee of Pondicherry. A section of students said on Tuesday that a communication the Health Secretariat had issued to each of the 107 students informed them of the present arrangement of reallocating them to the government run Mother Theresa Institute of Health Sciences and in the two privately run and recognised colleges of Kasturba Gandhi Nursing college and the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences at Kalapet, affiliated to the Pondicherry University.

Thus students had been up in arms against the college for alternative steps to enable them to do the course. They prayed before the High Court through a petition for transferring them to other institutions that had affiliation to the Pondicherry University and government recognition.

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