Allow medical students from Ukraine to join medical colleges in India: Chandrasekhar Rao to PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi has requested to allow Indian medical students who returned from war-torn Ukraine to join medical colleges in India in equivalent semesters by providing an exemption from the existing regulations.

Rao also suggested one-time permission to increase the number of medical seats proportionally so as to include the Indian medical students from Ukraine in Indian medical colleges to help them complete their education. He also informed Modi, of the Telangana government's decision to fund the college fee of 700 students from Telangana who returned from Ukraine due to the Russia Ukraine war. The chief minister requested Modi to take an early decision on this matter.

CM Sri KCR, in a letter addressed to Hon’ble Prime Minister Sri @NarendraModi ji, has requested to enable Indian students, dislocated from #Ukraine due to the war, to join Medical colleges in country in equivalent semesters in relaxation of extant regulations. pic.twitter.com/ODfM7D6Okk

— Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) March 29, 2022

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"According to reports, there are more than 20,000 Indian students who have been dislocated from Ukraine due to the war. 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. You will agree that everything possible should be done to safeguard their future," Raoi wrote in the letter.

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Due to the Russia Ukraine war, thousands of Indian medical students studying in Ukraine were forced to return to India jeopardising their studies.