A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court for issuing a direction to the Union government to allow the integration of Ukraine Medical students into the Indian medical system, in view of the ongoing war.
As per a PTI report, the plea sought directions to permit the students to complete their education in Indian medical college as an emergency and one-time measure.
The petition has submitted that presently, there are no norms and regulations in place to accommodate these rescued medical students in Indian medical colleges and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has the potential of disrupting the careers of Indian students who have already gone through the trauma of being in the war zone.
The plea filed by advocate Rana Sandeep Bussa and others said that their writ petition seeks to invoke the most salient fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 - the protection of life and personal liberty.
Since the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine and the return of students from Ukraine, multiple petitions are being filed in high courts and the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre to facilitate the continuation of studies of Indian medical students who have returned from Ukraine in domestic colleges.
A petition has also been filed by Pravasi Legal Cell before the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre in this regard. The petition filed in the top court says that the Union government has done a tremendous job in bringing Indian students back home but they are being deprived of their fundamental right to education.
It said the government has to step in and provide for the necessary integration of foreign medical students into the Indian medical curriculum. "A lot of Indian students studying in Ukraine have been displaced from their medical universities and are forced to leave behind their medical courses in between and this war has caused the Indian medical students huge financial, mental, physical hardship including academic breakdown", the plea said.
The plea said the National Medical Commission has allowed foreign medical graduates to complete their internship in India due to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, "so in this backdrop, the government must consider the plight of these medical students."