Senior officials of the Punjab government on Wednesday met the Medical Council of India (MCI) officials to work out the modalities for shifting of students of the Chintapurni Medical College in Pathankot to other colleges.
On Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s directives, Punjab Secretary Medical Education and Research Vikas Pratap and Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences Raj Bahadur represented the state government at the meeting, an official spokesperson said.
A high-level meeting was also held with the joint secretary (medical education), Government of India, he said.
Punjab Health Minister Brahm Mohindra said the MCI responded positively and expressed hope that the exercise of shifting the students to other medical colleges would be undertaken soon.
The de-recognition of the Chintapurni Medical College by the MCI had jeopardised the future of the students studying in the college.
Chintpurni college was owned and managed by BJP leader Swarn Salaria, now the partys candidate for the lok Sabha bypoll in Gurdaspur.