BANGALORE: Amid tight security on Tuesday, second-year students of Chaitanya College of Nursing and Kiran College of Nursing submitted applications to opt out of the colleges.

No affiliation

This follows a Karnataka High Court directive asking the colleges to issue the documents within three days to those who seek a transfer. The directive follows a public interest litigation petition against these two colleges, which do not have Indian Nursing Council affiliation.

Students, accompanied by parents and guardians, started arriving on the campus at Kadabagere, off Magadi, to submit the applications. After receiving the documents from the colleges, the students are planning to approach the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences for return of their marks cards.

The principal of Chaitanya College of Nursing, Hariprasad Rai, who accepted the applications from the students on behalf of both colleges, told The Hindu that 47 girls and 35 boys, all second year students in the two colleges, had sought transfer certificates, no-objection certificates and so on.

"Students have been asked to come on April 27 and April 28 to collect these certificates."

Some students said they were all studying in Chaitanya College of Nursing. Just before the examination, 40 of them were told that they would be writing the examination as students of Kiran College, which, they said, does not exist. The management of Chaitanya College maintained that Kiran College was in Hebbal.

The High Court on Saturday permitted 102 students to seek transfer from these colleges. Anxious parents who had come from different places in Kerala and Tamil Nadu said they would be seeking a list of affiliated colleges from the university and would try to seek admission in affiliated colleges. A few parents said they were taking their children back home.

Police deployed

Anticipating trouble, a large posse of policemen had been deployed near the college. Senior police officials, including Bangalore Rural Superintendent of Police K. Srinivas, Additional Superintendent of Police L.G. Krishnappa and others visited the college to oversee security arrangements.

Aniyan Joseph, the advocate who represented the students, said they were fighting to get their records from the colleges and did not want to pursue the course in colleges that did not have infrastructure, affiliation and other facilities.

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