The misery of about 80 students of General Nursing Midwifery (GNM) courses who came back from Nellore is far from over.
Despite a meeting with the senior State Government officials, the unfortunate lot who returned empty handed from two nursing institutes is worried about their future after wasting one precious year of their career. Duped, the students have started spilling the beans behind their suffering in alien land.As many as 80 students of Jharkhand studying at Dileef School of Nursing and Balaji Nursing School have returned to the State amid complains of high-handedness and obfuscation of facts by the institutes as well as several local agents of South India based colleges in Ranchi.
About 120 students of Jharkhand had enrolled themselves with the two institutes at Nellore in July 2013, said Anshu Mala Bara, one among the students.About 40 students of the total who enrolled in 2013 have stayed back.The students were taken to the institutes by an agent who had taken them into confidence about fee structure of the two institutes.However, barely a year after joining the institutes asked for additional Rs20,000 but even the agents did not come to rescue them from the unwanted situation.The exuberance of a better career in Nursing subsided within days when about 10 to 12 students had to share one room.
“The agents who facilitated our admission asked us to comply with the unjust demands of these institutes. At the time of taking admission the agents had said that the fee structure will not change and we need to pay Rs53,000 for the course,” said Bara.Despite assurance by officiating Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraverty few students seem reluctant to return to complete their studies of GNM at two institutes.The officiating CS had asked students to return to complete their course and has assured assistance from the State government if they chose to continue with their course.However, the experience with the system has been too sour to restore confidence back among the students.
A few students alleged that the department of Social Welfare has not been prompt enough in transferring the grant to a student’s account which aggravated the problem of excess fee demand especially of those who rely entirely on State’s grant to pursue professional courses.Under the arrangement of awarding scholarship the department transfers the amount directly in the account of beneficiaries.“Only few students received scholarship and that too at different intervals.
So those who received scholarship paid fee and those who did not pay came back with bag and baggage,” maintained Bara.The harrowing experience of studying in Nellore was accentuated by the linguistic barrier that acted as an impediment in seeking solution at local level.Meanwhile, Chakraverty has asked for a thorough probe into the matter and fact finding teams of police and other government officials is likely to visit Nellore.