KCR forgets Health Varsity, medical PG aspirants in trouble

Hyderabad, April 6,2015: The fate of 50,000 PG medical-seat aspirants in AP and Telagnana is hanging in the air as Telangana Government has failed to implement its word on establishing its own health university. While 50,000 medical graduates have taken the test conducted by the NTR Health University to seek admissions into PG courses in both the states, the TS government has announced that it would conduct its own admission thus putting brakes on the counselling process that was to have begun in the first week of April. The admissions should close by May 31 as per the norms of the Medical Council of India. (MCI) However, Chief Minister KCR, who announced amid much fanfare last September that TS would have its own health university , the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences at Warangal, could not take forward his proposal. Even six months of that statement, nothing moved on and the proposal remained only on paper. Despite that, TS government has announced that it would conduct its own admissions into PG medical courses. Even if the TS governments does a miracle and constitutes its own Health University now, it will take at least three months for the university to start functioning. But, as per the MCI guidelines, PG classes should commence by June 1. Meanwhile, officials of NTR University of Health Sciences said that it can not go ahead with the admission process unless both governments come to an agreement. Unless TS Government does something concrete in this regard, the medical PG course aspirants will have to spend sleepless nights. Observers feel it is an issue that should be settled in between the two CMs or at least the two health ministers.