Telangana Govt decides to borne medical college fee for students returned from Ukraine

Hyderabad: Telangana Government on Tuesday decided that the medical college fee for students belonging to Telangana, who returned from war-torn Ukraine, will be borne by the state government.

There are over 700 students from Telangana state, who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine returned home recently without completing their medical education and in view of the hardship faced by them, the government has taken this decision, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indian students who were studying in various medical colleges in Ukraine were forced to interrupt their education at different stages and return to India under conditions of extreme hardship due to the sudden eruption of war in Ukraine, the CM said the dislocation has jeopardized the future of these Indian students who have devoted considerable time and spent large sums of money in pursuing their medical education in Ukraine which is now likely to remain incomplete.

As per reports, there are over 20,000 Indian students who have been dislocated from Ukraine due to the war and most of them are from middle class families which will lose their lifetime savings without any hope of completing the medical education of their children, Mr Rao said in his letter.

Considering the exceptional circumstances of these students, he requested the PM that as a special case, to help the students complete their education, they may be enabled to join medical colleges in the country in equivalent semesters in relaxation of the regulations in vogue.

For this purpose, permission may also be accorded to proportionately increase the seats in different semesters in the medical colleges on a one-time basis to accommodate these students, he requested the PM.

In his concluding letter, the CM requested the PM to consider the matter sympathetically and take an early decision in this regard.