Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to make arrangements for the medical students who had to return from war-ravaged Ukraine so that they did not have to lose their academic sessions.
Requesting the Prime Minister to make arrangements so that the medicalstudents could pursue their studies in Indian colleges the Chief Minister on Wednesday wrote, “Sir, this is an unprecedented warsituation that calls for an extraordinary solution.”She wrote to the Prime Minister that the students from Bengal who wereeligible for internship would be accommodated in Government medical colleges and would be given stipends “at par with the other candidates.”Asking the Prime Minister to prevail on the National Medical Commission — erstwhile the Medic al Council of India — so that the medical students reading in different years could be accommodated “at the equivalent level in private medical colleges… these medical colleges may be allowed to increase the equivalent number of seats” by relaxing the requisite guidelines.