The government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the law does not allow undergraduate medical students, who fled the "war-like situation" in Ukraine, to be accommodated in Indian medical colleges.
The affidavit from the Health Ministry was in response to petitions filed by students, in their first to fourth years of undergraduate medical studies in Ukraine, seeking transfer to colleges in India to continue their semesters here.
“So far as such students are concerned, there are no provisions either under the Indian Medical Council Act of 1956 or the National Medical Commission (NMC) Act 2019 as well as the Regulations to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes/colleges to Indian medical colleges. Till now, no permission has been given by the NMC to transfer or accommodate any foreign medical students in any Indian medical institute/university,” the Ministry said.
