Nursing college ex-principal, Patran institute owner held

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 4
The Vigilance Bureau has arrested Aruna Chhabra, former principal of KD College of Nursing, Mahilpur, in Hoshiarpur district, from his residence at village Khudda Jassu, Chandigarh, and Dr Kuldeep Singh Mehrok, owner of Mehrok College of Nursing and Medical Sciences, Taipur, Patran, Patiala district.
Both were involved in committing irregularities in admissions and examinations in nursing colleges in connivance with officials and employees of the Punjab Nursing Registration Council (PNRC), Mohali, and evading arrest.
Charanjit Kaur Cheema, former registrar of the PNRC and principal (retired) of Nursing Training School, Gurdaspur, and Dr Arvinderveer Singh Gill, resident of Basant Vihar, Hoshiarpur, have already been arrested.
An official spokesperson of the VB said during the investigation of a complaint about committing irregularities in admissions, examinations and results in private nursing colleges, it has come to light that with the connivance of the managements of the private nursing colleges, PNRC officials had tampered with the government records for conducting examinations of nursing students without the admission forms, examination forms and requisite examination fees.
He further said during the probe, it was found that KD College of Nursing, Mahilpur, had got recognition from the Indian Nursing Council, New Delhi, on September 25, 2019, and from the PNRC on November 29, 2012. Even before the recognition of this college, the admission forms and receipt numbers were found to be issued by the PNRC.
He revealed that the admission forms pertaining to five roll numbers were received from this college but these admission forms/roll numbers were issued to Princeton Institute of Nursing, Gurdaspur, by the Nursing Council. The fake admission list of these students was prepared in October 2012 much before the college was recognised and on the basis of this admission list, a cut-off list regarding the roll numbers was issued on the receipt of the examination forms and fees.
Apart from this, an admission list of 27 students belonging to GRD International Institute of Nursing, Tanda Urmur, Hoshiarpur, had been prepared and uploaded on the website by the PNRC. In the revised list of 30 students of this college, the admissions on two roll numbers were mentioned through KD College of Nursing, Mahilpur.