Imphal: As a temporary arrangement, the National Medical Commission has decided to allow all displaced students from four medical colleges in violence-hit areas of Manipur to take online classes or on hybrid mode at Churachandpur Medical College. The decision came following an appeal by Manipur government.
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NMC, which is an apex regulator of medical education and profession in India, has further decided that examinations for all such students will be arranged in that medical college only and the shortfall in attendance and internal assessment will be arranged through special classes.
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NMC conveyed the decisions to the state government on Wednesday after a team of NMC members including the president of Under-Graduate Medical Education Board visited Imphal and held a detailed discussion with state authorities and deans of all the four medical colleges namely JNIMS, RIMS, CMC and Shija Academy of Medical Sciences.
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“The Manipur government has been corresponding with the NMC and the relevant ministry for months for the welfare of these students’, said Health minister Dr Sapam Ranjan recently, a day after the first year Kuki-Zo MBBS students numbering at least 27 took out protest on the streets in Churachandpur District, alleging that Manipur University had not allowed them to write their Phase-1 examinations at CMC despite no objection from the NMC.
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