Thiruvananthapuram
In what could have significant implications for MBBS interns across the country, the Supreme Court’s intervention has resulted in a Delhi-based private medical college agreeing before the apex court that it will pay its MBBS interns stipend on par with what is paid to students in government medical colleges.
In response to an interim order by the Supreme Court (issued after a student took the stipend issue to the apex court), Army College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, on October 16, filed an affidavit before the court that it has paid all its 105 students ₹25,000 each as stipend on September 30 and that henceforth too it will continue to make these payments every month.
