Shillong, Aug 24 : The stalemate over the admission of nine students from Meghalaya to the North East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) ended today with dean P. Bhattacharya agreeing to admit them from tomorrow.
Bhattacharya gave the assurance to the Khasi Students Union (KSU), which had planned to disrupt MBBS classes at the institute today — the deadline set by them for admitting the students. The dean invited the KSU for talks and assured them of the students’ admission.
The standoff between Meghalaya and the institute began early this month when the state government submitted a list of nine students, selected by it on the basis of merit, to the institute for admission to its MBBS courses.
NEIGRIHMS wrote back to the state government saying all the students would have to take an entrance test before getting admission into the institute. The matter was also communicated to the Union health ministry.
The state government, however, made it clear that it had been following the same procedure in other medical institutes and there was no need for any special entrance test. Chief minister Mukul Sangma also met Union health minister Gulam Nabi Azad last week to seek his intervention.
KSU general secretary Hamlet Dohling said they met Bhattacharya on Saturday and set a deadline of 24 hours to admit the Meghalaya students. He today led a group of KSU activists to the institute in order to stop all MBBS classes there if it failed to admit the students from Meghalaya.
“However, since we were assured that the Meghalaya students would be admitted to the institute from tomorrow, we have decided to wait and watch,” Dohling said. “If it is an empty promise, the KSU will be compelled to stop the MBBS classes which began two weeks ago,” he added.
Meghalaya chief secretary W.M.S. Pariat said the state government’s stand in sending the list of nine students to NEIGRIHMS for admission was in order and there was no cause for worry.
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