Click to play videoJabalpur/ Bhopal: Medical school can be a difficult and challenging place. And for Nitin Mantri who is partially blind, it is even more so.
Last year, Nitin was denied admission to the Jabalpur Medical College despite a good performance in the entrance exam.
"I had scored 87.6 per cent marks where as the general category cut off was 86.5 per cent. I had a certificate from the medical board but still I was denied admission,” says Nitin.
Nitin took the college to court. The Jabalpur High Court ruled last year that there was nothing in the Medical Council of India's rules that prevented visually challenged students from studying medicine.
Nitin was admitted to the college, but nine months later now, another bench of the same court is saying that Nitin cannot continue his studies.
"The court had allowed Mantri to study medicine but the MCI went for a review and the court accepted the argument that visually challenged people can not be allowed to study medicine,” says counsel, MCI, Indira Nair.
Meanwhile, Nitin is now planning to appeal the decision in the Supreme Court.
Nitin story has once again brought to focus the insensitivity of the state government and the Medical Council of India towards people who deserve special attention.
Had there been specific rules Nitin at least could have been spared the torture of going through this entire process.
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