Accommodate Medical Students Who Returned From Ukraine In Indian Colleges: Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi

On Wednesday West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accomodate Indian medical students who returned from war-torn Ukraine at the equivalent level in the private medical colleges. In a letter to PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee urged him to allow eligible medical students who returned from Ukraine for internship in the government medical colleges.

“Sir, this is an unprecedented war situation that calls for an extraordinary solution,” Banerjee wrote to Narendra Modi.

“Students who are eligible for the internship, should be allowed to undergo the internship in government medical colleges of the state and they will also paid the stipend at par with other candidates,” she wrote to PM.

She further added that students in different years of the studies may be allowed to get admitted at the equivalent level in the private medical colleges against the existing seats and these medical colleges may be allowed to increase an equivalent number of seats for accommodating these students.

She said that to date 391 students from West Bengal have returned back from Ukraine and are passing through severe stress and anxiety due to their uncertain future.