Nursing colleges criticise cancellation of ANM, GNM exams

Sushil Manav

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Tribune News Service

Fatehabad, June 18

The government’s decision to annul exams for the Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery (ANM) and General Nurse Midwifery (GNM) courses held in November has come as a blow to a large number of nursing institutes.

The managements and the affected students have been mulling various options, including moving the court.

Health Minister Anil Vij had yesterday castigated the previous Congress government for allowing nursing colleges to come up without permission. “Being unauthorised institutes, the exams conducted earlier have been cancelled and these would now again be held by Pt. BDS University of Health Sciences, Rohtak,” he maintained.

Representatives of the colleges have termed the orders as autocratic and a blow to hundreds of students studying in 147-odd nursing colleges in the state.

“Our institutions are registered by the State Nursing Registration Council (SNRC) as well as Indian Nursing Council (INC). In the absence of a board constituted by the government, the exams were conducted by the SNRC in 2012-13, by PGIMS in 2013-14 and by Director, Medical Education in 2014-15. Now, the government has put hundreds of students in s dilemma by announcing the cancellation, ” alleged Ravi Singh, Chairman of Aryabhatt Nursing College at Manawali in Fatehabad.