The Medical University will give affiliation to nursing colleges for 2024-25. Provisions of the Amendment Act will not be applicable this year. The Medical University will release results of nursing examinations of the last two sessions. The list of colleges found lacking in CBI investigation will be made public. The PIL of Law Students Association President Vishal Baghel in the nursing fraud case along with all other nursing cases was heard in the Principal Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court before a special bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi and Justice Achal Kumar Paliwal.

 

The Medical University will give affiliation to nursing colleges for 2024-25. The petitioner had challenged the amendment of the Medical University Act by presenting an application in the High Court. The court was told that the Medical University was established for the purpose of ensuring systematic, efficient, uniform, quality education, research in the field of health education, which the Government amended in the Act in 2024 and handed over the control of affiliation of nursing and paramedical courses to the regional university. The petitioner had questioned this decision and argued that other regional universities do not have expertise in health related subjects and in other states also health related courses are being conducted by Health University. Keeping in view the current circumstances, the High Court has directed that the affiliation process for the session 2024-25 will be conducted by the Medical University. Results of thousands of nursing students will be released.

 

The annual/semester examinations of various nursing courses of the session 2019-20 and 2020-21 were conducted by the Medical University on the orders of the High Court, the results could not be released due to not getting the permission of the High Court, today the High Court has given permission to the Medical Sciences University to release the results of those examinations, due to which thousands of students who were waiting for the results will get relief. The report of colleges found deficient in the CBI investigation will be made public. The report of the investigation conducted by the High Court of about 700 nursing colleges of Madhya Pradesh was presented by the CBI in a sealed envelope to the High Court, a copy of which was handed over by the High Court to the Nursing Council and the petitioner. In this case, the High Court has directed that the list of deficient colleges and the deficiencies found in them should be made public on the website of the Nursing Council.

 

It is worth mentioning that the High Court had also got 169 nursing colleges found suitable in the first investigation conducted again, in which many colleges have been excluded from the suitable list. Also, in the second round of CBI investigation, orders were given to investigate GMM nursing colleges, in whose report also a large number of colleges have been found ineligible. The High Court is angry at the decisions of DME and Registrar. The High Court has verbally expressed its displeasure at functioning of the officers of the Nursing Council during the hearing of the case related to representation and expressed surprise at the decisions of the Director Medical Education. On the other hand, the petitioner had challenged appointment of an inspector involved in irregularities as the Registrar, on which the High Court has verbally directed the Advocate General to take action against the guilty Registrar and has also instructed that if any negligence is committed by the officers while the case is pending in the High Court, then it will be taken seriously.