Manipur: MBBS students stage protest after debarred from appearing first year exam

IMPHAL-   Several medical students, who were displaced because of the ethnic unrest in Manipur, staged a protest in Churachandpur district on Tuesday claiming they were barred from taking their first-year examination even as they completed all the required formalities.

The students took a rally from Tuibong Bazar to the deputy commissioner’s office and held a sit-in dharna and submitted a memorandum to the additional DC.

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“The students feel hurt because their fellow displaced students from Churachandpur Medical College were allowed to continue their studies at JNIMS centre uninterrupted but no such arrangement were made it went on to say. The students stated they somehow joined their fellow CMC students with in their classes with the hope of writing University examination together with them which was verbally assured by the Chief Secretary and the DC Churachandpur it noted,” the memorandum stated.

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Of the 33 students, 27 of them were displaced during the ethnic riots. 27 MBBS students, seeking Manipur governor Anusuiya Uikey’s intervention, have alleged that they were barred despite depositing the fees and filling up their examination forms.

The students claimed the National Medical Commission or NMC had stated that it had no objection if they appeared from the parent college or from a different college. After this, the displaced students were attending classes at the Churachandpur Medical College (CMC).

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However, they were first barred from their BDS examination and then from the MBBS examination which was scheduled to be held on Tuesday.

The students have further alleged that admit cards and other examination materials were sent only to six MBBS students and the rest of the displaced students were excluded.