this image collected from Google
NIN News Desk : Students of the newly inaugurated Government Medical College, Jagjeetpur in Haridwar are outraged over the state government’s decision to allegedly ‘privatise’ the medical college.The Uttarakhand government has decided to hand over the medical college to ‘Sharda Educational Trust’ as per the reports. The college is reportedly going to be run on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model after the handover. However, the students of the college are unhappy with the decision of the government. Calling for the rollback of the decision, the students are staging protest in the college premises. The protesting students said that they worked hard to get admission into a government medical college, as admission into a ‘government’ college requires better ranks.It is totally unfair towards them to change the status of the medical college from government to private, because if the government’s plans for handing over the college to a private trust are finalised, their certificates will have medical degrees from a private college, not a government college as they hoped for. Then their hardwork of NEET-UG has totally gone in vain for the students in the College.The authorities have kept them in the dark regarding the privatisation of the college. As per reports they don’t want the tag of a private college said by a protesting student of the college. There is no value of all the hard work that they had put in to get admission into the college. Even they were not even informed about the decision to privatise the college. This is a serious mockery of Education System in the country especially in the Medical Field if this goes on then those days are not very far where most Colleges will be turned into Private Institutions.
N.B : Article written by Dr Subhrajyoti Chattopadhyay (Health Activist and eminent Doctor of West Bengal)
