Admission of 49 homeopathy students cancelled after studying for 3 years

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 23

The admissions of as many as 49 students of the 2016-17 batch studying at JR Kissan Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital in Rohtak for three years were abruptly cancelled last year.

While the authorities concerned cite an order of the Supreme Court on being asked about the cancellation of admissions, the affected students have been running from pillar to post for the last 10 months.

After having knocked at all possible doors, the hapless students are now sitting on dharna on the premises of Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS) in Rohtak for a week.

“We had duly cleared the entrance exam and got admitted to the college after undergoing the counseling process. We studied for three years and cleared the exams of the first two years. However, a few days prior to our third-year exams in 2019, we were abruptly told that our admissions had been cancelled,” the protesting students said while talking to The Tribune at the dharna site.

Inquiries made into the matter revealed that the Union Ayush Ministry had turned down a proposal to increase the number of seats pertaining to the 2016-17 batch at the college.

The college authorities approached the High Court, which allowed them to continue the classes of the 49 students admitted to the college in that batch.

In the meanwhile, the college, which was earlier affiliated with UHS, Rohtak, was shifted to Shri Krishna Ayush University, Kurukshetra. The authorities of Ayush university then moved the Supreme Court, which set aside the High Court’s order, thus rendering the admissions of the 49 students cancelled.

The director of the college, Amarender Singh, said the Central authorities concerned had authorised the Haryana Government to decide the matter.

“We appeal to the state government to adopt a sympathetic approach regarding the matter as the future of 49 students is at stake,” he stated.

It may be pertinent to mention here that the Haryana Government has constituted a committee comprising the additional chief secretaries of the departments of Health and Medical Education and Research to decide the matter.

The UHS Registrar, Dr H.K.Aggarwal, who is also a member of the committee, said a meeting of the committee had been convened at Chandigarh to deliberate over the matter.