Decide on fate of foreign medical students in six weeks SC to Centre-Education News

The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Centre not to further delay its decision on the problem faced by foreign medical graduates who returned

to India during their penultimate year of study due to Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine and gave six weeks’ time for a committee formed by the Centre to arrive at a decision. Dealing with a batch of petitions filed by the students anxiously awaiting a solution from the Court concerning their future, a bench of justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath said, “At the request of the additional solicitor general (ASG), list the matter after six weeks.” Appearing for Centre, ASG Aishwarya Bhati informed the Court that a committee has been constituted which is examining the case of the students who were in their penultimate year of medical undergraduate course.

“Kindly give us six more weeks. The Committee has been constituted and needs some more time,” Bhati said. The bench reminded Centre, “Don’t take any further time,” even as it reiterated that the Court has no expertise on these matters and will be relying on the opinion suggested by the expert committee. While the Court had asked the Centre to consider only those students in their penultimate year of study, several other students who returned to India in their first and second year of MBBS courses abroad also appealed to the Court for being included in the zone of consideration.

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