New Delhi: On Sunday, students who returned from Ukraine along with their parents gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to take admission in Indian educational institutions for the rest of their studies, news agency ANI reported.
Most of the Indian students who were forced to flee Ukraine due to Russia’s growing invasion of the country were enrolled in the MBBS programme.
ANI quoted the parents on their official Twitter handle as saying, “The government should save the careers of our children the same way they saved their lives and bring them back from Ukraine.”
Delhi | Students who returned from Ukraine gather at Jantar Mantar with their parents seeking admission in Indian institutions for the rest of their education
Parents say government should save our children’s career the same way they saved their own lives and bring them back from Ukraine pic.twitter.com/nFL8KcNic5
— ANI (@ANI) April 17, 2022
Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help the students who had returned to Bengal from war-torn Ukraine.
In the letter, he requested the Prime Minister to guarantee that these students can take admission in Indian universities and complete their medical studies.
“Till now, 391 such students have returned from West Bengal and they are going through severe stress and anxiety due to their uncertain future,” Banerjee wrote in the letter.
In her letter, the Bengal chief minister also asked the prime minister to loosen the guidelines and made four proposals for the government to consider.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had dismissed two cases after the Center said it had completed the crucial task of evacuating 22,500 stranded Indian students from the conflict zone of Ukraine, news agency PTI reported.
A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Krishna Murari took note of Attorney General KK Venugopal’s remarks that the Center, apart from bringing back the stranded students, was also looking into the claim that their studies were being harmed by the ongoing conflict. Is.
As soon as the students returned, there was nothing left in this regard, the bench observed initially.
Vishal Tiwari, a lawyer who had filed a PIL in his capacity, addressed the problem of continuing education of persons rescued from war-torn countries.
“A huge work has been done by the government and 22,500 students have been brought back. The government is looking into the representation (of the students) and the government will look into it,” Venugopal said.
(with inputs from agencies)
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