July 23, 2022

Government of India Puts Mandate Against Students Studying Abroad from Transferring to Indian Universities

T Two months after the West Bengal government allocated seats for practical training to 412 medical students who had returned from Ukraine, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharti Pravin Pawar told the Lok Sabha that there were no provisions in the Acts governing medical education to allow such transfers.

While responding to a query in the Lok Sabha, the minister said, “Therefore, no permission has been given by the NMC to transfer or accommodate any foreign medical students in any Indian medical institute or university.”

…students who complete their education in this manner will also be ineligible to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which is required of all medical students from foreign universities, with the exception of a few countries…

When asked if the West Bengal government accommodated 400 students in state universities, the minister replied, "As informed by the National Medical Commission (NMC), the regulatory body of medical education in the country, no such information is available with them."

All admissions to MBBS seats – even the 85% seats under the state quota – happen according to the ranks of the students in the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), the minister stated.

The media had previously reported that NMC officials were emphatic that no such permission had been sought or granted. Students who complete their education in this manner will also be ineligible to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which is required of all medical students from foreign universities, with the exception of a few countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, in order to practise in India.

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