400 MBBS students’ future at stake

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, March 11

Future of over 400 students of the Goldfields Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Ballabgarh, is at stake, as the Medical Council of India (MCI) has withdrawn recognition over its failure to meet the conditions. Seeking intervention of the state government, college students today staged a protest and submitted a memorandum to the district authorities.

The college has not been holding classes for eight months.

Blaming gross mismanagement on part of the authorities concerned, PK Gupta, a parent, said the future of hundreds of students who got admission in the MBBS course was in the dark.

Claiming that while the issue had been taken up with the office of the Vice Chancellor, Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, he said nothing concrete had been done so far.

Jagdish Sharma, a parent, said while 90 per cent of the faculty had resigned or left, the rest of the teachers and staff were busy in protesting, causing inconvenience to both students and parents. He said the college management had not paid the staff for a year.

At a recent meeting convened by the Ballabgarh SDM, representative of the management reportedly admitted complete financial breakdown and inability to run the college. “Though the college came into being in 2010-11, the crisis struck in 2014 when the MCI withdrew its recognition over several lacunae (infrastructure and staff). It resulted in ban on fresh admissions in the past two years,” said Aujender Singh, another parent.

The college collected several crores as annual fee and other charges in advance last year, but failed to ensure classes, making the students suffer, it is claimed. While no college official was available for a comment, Deputy Commissioner Chander Shekhar said the issue was being brought to the notice of the state government.