National Medical Commission announces relief for displaced students of four medical colleges in Manipur

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has now granted authorities in Manipur the permission to allow displaced medical students in the hill district of Churachandpur to appear for classes and examinations in hybrid or online mode at the Churachandpur Medical College (CMC).

This comes after sustained protests by Kuki-Zomi medical students who were displaced from their Imphal colleges in the ethnic conflict. The displaced students of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, and the SHIJA Medical College have maintained that their counterparts in Imphal have been able to continue classes and appear for examinations, while they have been deprived of the same.

In a letter to the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Manipur government on Wednesday (November 29), the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board said any deficiency in attendance or internal assessment should also be allowed to be completed at the CMC for displaced students.