Temporary NMC relief for displaced medical students of 4 Manipur colleges

NEW DELHI: All displaced students from four medical colleges in violence-hit areas of Manipur will be allowed to take online classes or on hybrid mode at Churachandpur Medical College as a temporary arrangement.

Further, 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, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has decided.These decisions were conveyed by the NMC to the Manipur government on Wednesday after a team of members from the commission including the president of Under-Graduate Medical Education Board visited Imphal and held a detailed discussion with state authorities and deans of all four medical colleges to assess the situation and find a reasonable solution arising due to law-and-order problems.

The state government has been writing to the Union health ministry and the NMC for alternative arrangements for conducting classes and examinations for the displaced students of JNIMS, RIMS, CMC and SHIJA Medical College in Manipur since the outbreak of violence in Manipur on May 3.

"After detailed discussion, competent authority in NMC decided that all displaced students from four medical colleges in violence hit areas of Manipur will be allowed to have online classes or on hybrid mode at Churachandpur Medical College," the NMC said.

It also added that the examination for all such displaced students will be arranged in that medical college only and deficiency in attendance and internal assessment will be arranged through special classes.