The Hindutva Card, The
Government of India and the Judiciary.
Thank you Madam Sushma
Swaraj. Now I, an old veteran, have lost complete faith in the BJP and the
Indian Government which all of us clapped on to power and so also I have lost
faith in the Indian Judicial System. This losing of FAITH started with
veterans like me, being beaten up at Jantar Mantar by ordinary policemen, then the OROP fiasco, 7 CPC and this loss of FAITH is
complete with your behavior with respect to my granddaughter an NRI and many
other NRI's like her from different countries. I as a serving Army Officer, has borne a whole lot of injustices from the Government of India, which continued after my retirement and hanging up my uniform. However I cannot sit quietly and see generation three of my progeny being hounded by the present Government, due to the ill educated, corrupt, self serving politicians who care 2 hoots for the people of India and its students who reside within India's boundaries and abroad.
JAIPUR: Union minister
of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, who is known for her active role on
social media, helped a teenage Pakistani girl get admission into
Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Medical College (SMS), a government college here
on Wednesday. Without appearing for NEET. A Pakistani National, a foreigner
residing in India for the last 2 years, she was given admission to a Medical
College by Madam Sushma Swaraj, without appearing for or passing NEET exam, bending backwards and calling her my child, with complete disregard to the Supreme Court of India's directions. So
now, in this case, nobody quoted and harped on the Supreme court ruling
upholding MCI. Mera Bharat Mahan.
My granddaughter along
with many other NRI students also foreign residents like her, were admitted in
the 15 Percent NRI quota in the Kasturba Medical College Manipal, a private
Medical College, were thrown out unceremoniously from the middle of a human
anatomy dissection class, for not having appeared for NEET and thus their
admission stood cancelled. She and the others were given 2 days to vacate her
hostel room and leave the college premises. Reason a 3 judge bench of The
Supreme Court dismissed out of hand University of Manipal's appeal for the
students and our (students parents combined) appeal. NRI students who actually
reside abroad and have different education systems in their countries of
residence, were not required to appear for any entrance Exams, their admissions
were made on a merit list prepared from the Equivalent certificate issued by
the ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES New Delhi.
Our contention that MCI
gave clarification that all NRI's and actual Foreigner students are included in
their ruling and are required to give NEET was given on 04 Aug 2016 well after
the last NEET exam was conducted on 24 July 2016. So also it is not
possible for such students to fly down to India and give NEET which is not
related to the system of examinations followed in different countries.
Therefore it was prayed
before The Supreme Court bench that the students whose admission process
started in December 2015 should be allowed to continue their classes, as
the college had already started. However the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal
out of hand without even giving a hearing. Now my granddaughter has come to my
house on her way back to her parents, having lost a full academic year, thanks
to this murderous behavior of MCI, the government of India and the Supreme
Court.
Here is the case of a
Pakistani foreigner student and Sushma Swaraj playing the Hindutva Card, which
is proving the nemesis of the BJP. God save this country.
"I thank Sushma Swaraj jee for making my dream come true," said 18-year-old Mashal Maheshwari, who joined SMS college on September 22. Maheshwari's family had moved to Jaipur from Pakistan's Sindh province two years ago on a religious visa due to rising atrocities on Hindu minorities. Dr US Agrawal, controller and principal of SMS medical college confirmed her admission but did not reveal the category under which she secured a seat. (Obviously he will not as their is no such category for admission of a foreigner in a Government Medical College and that too her not having appeared for NEET).
The meritorious student, who secured 91% in her Class XII CBSE exams, could not appear in the common entrance exam for medical NEET, due to her nationality. She had tweeted to the Union minister on May 29, 2016, and got a prompt reply.
Quote Sushma Swaraj
"Mashal, don't be disappointed my child. I will personally take up your case for admission in a medical college." Swaraj had said in her tweet. Later the minister's office asked Maheshwari to submit the documents required for admission.
I reproduce here my
mails to Sushma Swaraj on behalf of my grand daughter and the cold shoulder I
received. I also reproduce the mail which I have sent to the Chief Justice of
India for which I received no response. Please do go through these. It may help
my readers in their future dealings with this sorry country.
Mail No 1
My First Mail to Sushma
Swaraj
1. My granddaughter has
secured admission to the MBBS course conducted by Manipal University at their
Medical College in Manipal for Academic year 2016-2017. My daughter is an NRI
and my granddaughter has studied abroad in the American system of education and
has topped in her school by her APS grading in XII grade, she has excelled in
her SAT's too. The Indian Equivalent of her grading has been obtained from the
ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES AIU House, 16 Comrade Indrajit Gupta Marg,
New Delhi –2 (EVALUATION DIVISION).
2. Her fees have been
paid and her classes have already begun from 12 September. Now the university
has informed my daughter who is abroad, that my granddaughter's admission (so
also all NRI students without NEET) is liable to cancellation due to the new August
4 directive of MCI that NEET is mandatory for all medical admissions inclusive
of NRI and Foreign Nationality students. Interestingly the last NEET was held
on 24 July 2016. Earlier NRI students were not required to appear for any
entrance Exams, their admissions were made on merit list prepared from the
Equivalent certificate issued by the ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES.
3. I feel that grave
injustice has been done to my granddaughter by the MCI (Medical Council of
India), and she stands to lose this Academic year for no fault of hers. It is
my request that MCI may please be made to hold this directive in abeyance for
present batch of NRI students and may be considered from next year if at all.
Following is for consideration in this respect:
The amendment to the
effect that NEET is mandatory for NRI students too, was made and published on
04 August 2016, by that time NEET Exams were over and my granddaughter had
already secured admission for MBBS in Manipal University, the admission process
for which had started in late 2015. Had she known earlier AND IN TIME, she
would have given the NEET Exam or, accepted admission offered, either in
Singapore, the US or Malaysia which was much easier as cost of education is
same out there as in India. SHE CHOSE INDIA AS MEDICAL EDUCATION IS THE BEST AS
COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
4. Students who
actually reside abroad, like my granddaughter, undergo different exam patterns
like American AP or the Advanced Placement System, SAT's, Senior Cambridge, IB
etc. The ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES, issues an equivalent certificate
for use by NRI students to obtain admissions in various fields of Higher
Education, in NRI quotas by merit.
Asking them to fly down
from their Countries of residence to appear for NEET exam, when their pattern
of education is entirely different from that of India, appears to be rather
inconsistent and irrational thinking.
5. Applying this
criteria of successfully passing NEET for admission to MBBS degree courses on
04 August 2016, to NRI students and declaring it applicable for current
Academic year, after all NEET exams I and II are over for current academic year
by 24 July 2016, is unfair to say in the last. I am tempted to use severe
un-parliamentary language at this point. Though I understand that this decision
of MCI was to curtail corruption by Indian Medical Colleges to sell seats in
the Black Market under the guise of Management Quota at practically 4 times the
cost of NRI seats.
5. Granted it is a noble
cause, this application of NEET for NRI's will play into the hands of Medical
Colleges as more number of seats would be available to be sold under Management
Quota, earlier falling under 15 % NRI reservation, as more NRI seats will be
unsubscribed for. As a matter of fact, a large number of Private Medical
Colleges have already advertised more Management seats in National newspapers,
with gleeful anticipation of earning some more tainted money. In Pune the
Market Rate for an MBBS seat offered to me under Management Quota is Rs.4 crore
as against the fees of 1.6 crores for NRI students. So instead of "Acche
din", "Bure din" are in store for NRI students and their parents
and Acche din for Private Medical Colleges.
6. Following is my
request for the consideration of the authorities who can supersede/override
this directive of the MCI:
(a). This draconian
directive from the MCI may please be held in abeyance for current Academic
Year, such that students who are attending First year MBBS classes (which
started on 12 Sept) are not thrown out and lose 1 academic year for no fault of
theirs but the stupidity of the decision makers of MCI, who if at all should
have done this in probably July 2015 a year before the commencement of this
academic year, certainly not after NEET exams were over and MBBS admissions
already done with. This would have given adequate time for the NRI students for
preparation for NEET exam or apply elsewhere.
(b). The applicability
of NEET for NRI students should be reconsidered for future applicability and
rejected in toto for the reasons I have quoted in para 4 above.
Thanks and Regards.
Mail Number 2
Dear Madam Sushma
Swaraj,
Please refer to trailing
mail. Thank you for your inaction in not resolving the issue in time. The
unthinkable has happened. A 3 judge SC bench has refused to hear a case against
the MCI and my granddaughter, along with many other NRI's has been evicted from
First Year MBBS, Manipal University. I reproduce the Mail I have sent to the
Hon CJI for your information. I hope better sense prevails and you in
consultation with Hon PM issue an ordinance in favor of actual NRI students so
their Academic year is saved. Otherwise this country is headed for trouble if
it does not want talent to return.
Thanks and Regards,
The one terse reply I
received from her office, no "don't be disappointed my
child" stuff, just some babudom reply, super motherly treatment for a
Pakistani an enemy country and step motherly treatment for our own Indian
students.
Mail received from the Ministry of External Affairs.
Mail received from the Ministry of External Affairs.
URGENT
No.OI-12014/02/2016-OIA.II.D
Government of India
Ministry of External
Affairs
(Overseas Indian
Affairs-II Division)
Akbar Bhawan,
Chanakyapuri New
Delhi, 28 Sept., 2016
Subject:
Representations from overseas Indians about problems relating to NEET.
A copy each of three representations received from the following
overseas Indians relating to NEET is
enclosed:-
a) Mail dated 12.09.2016
received from Ms. Camellia Chaudhuri.
b) Mail dated 23.09.2016 from
Shri Santosh Vemula, USA.
c) Mail dated 23.09.2016 from
Col. (Retd.) Ajay Ukidve, Pune.
2.
Ministry of Health & FW is requested to consider the requests made therein
and send a reply to each of the petitioners under intimation to this Ministry.
(V. K. Bhatia)
Consultant (OIA-II)
Tel: 011-24197941
Email: consultant.ds(3),mea.gov.in
Encl: As above
To
Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare
(Shri
Amit Biswas, Under Secretary)
526-A,
Nirman Bhavan
Maulana
Azad Road
NewDelhi-110
011
Email: amit.biswas69('a)nic.in
Copy with enclosures forwarded to Secretary,
Medical Council of India, Pocket-14, Sector-8, Dwarka Phase-I, New Delhi-110077.
Copy for information to Petitioners by
e-mail: camellia.chaudhuri2412@gmail.com,vemulasantosh@gmail.com, and ajayukidve@gmail.com.
My mail to the
Chief Justice of India
Attn: Honorable Chief
Justice of India,
I am a retired Army
veteran from India. My grand daughter is from Nairobi Kenya where my daughter
resides as an NRI. She is a topper in AP's so also she has won many awards from
her American school like Sir Isaac Newton trophy in Science, as well as an
88,000 USD scholarship from Seton Hall University in the US, requesting her to
join their University. Plus she had secured admission to many Medical Colleges.
In spite of all this my daughter chose to send my granddaughter to India after
listening to Hon PM Modiji. So also another NRI from the US who received an
award from President Obama for intellectual and academic brilliance from
Pennsylvania. Now all NRI's without NEET booted out because of the callousness
or should I say inhumanness of the 3 your honors dismissing their case. What I
understood was that law is interpreted in a human way and not with the dots and
dashes in the Act.
She was admitted to the
MBBS course at Manipal University, Kasturba Medical College in July 2016 much
before the NEET 2 was conducted and she was attending classes till she was
unceremoniously thrown out this morning by Manipal University for not having
done NEET, because of your esteemed bench of 3 Justices refused to hear her case,
allowing MCI to run riot. MCI stipulated NEET as a requirement for Foreign /
NRI Students with retrospective effect. They also mentioned that SC also did
not give any relief to these REAL NRI / Foreign students.
Living overseas, neither
does my daughter or my granddaughter know what this NEET is all about ! My
granddaughter is in tears, heartbroken and depressed, having now lost the
opportunity of joining elsewhere. She now says "what a disgusting country
India is, no sense of fair play", I don't think she will ever
come to India again unless justice is delivered. How can you do this to a 19
year old ? It is just not about my granddaughter, there are hundreds of
young Foreign and real NRI students from all over the world - all in the same
situation. If that was the AIM of MCI to keep foreign talent out and help
Private Universities to make wealth, then the SC has amazingly pushed that idea
much against Modijis wishes.
I am more than sure, our
system will not do this if the children of high level Indian officials, the
Babus etc and Ministers are in the same situation. Though my daughter and
her family lives abroad, their hearts are with our Motherland India. We talk a
lot about Brain-drain, Make in India ..etc. But when someone like me, a retired
Army Officer a bit long in the tooth. looks at India, my heart bleeds
because of the actions of our officials in India. I have experienced the worst
mind you. The Supreme Court of India, the last bastion of fair play and
justice, also closed its eyes when these innocent children approached you for
your help, and your brethren, for whatever reason even refused to
hear their pleadings. Mera Bharat Mahan indeed. Remember, there is a GOD in
heaven and he is looking at all of us, our deeds and our actions.
There is a saying and I
need not remind you who wears the ultimate crown of justice and fair play
in India - 'The guilty may escape from the eyes of law, but an innocent
person should not be punished'.
Now look at these young,
innocent tender hearts. They are heartbroken, being literally evicted from
their careers for no fault of theirs but some hidden agenda which they nor me
do not understand. It is just not my granddaughter, the hearts of so many,
young tender hearts are bleeding now. They are returning back to their
respective countries. Some of them may never recover from this shock in their
lifetime, nor will they ever come to India again. Some students said "we
spit on this bloody country and its bloody awful system". Who is responsible for this?
The system in India without doubt, plus, I do not hesitate to say that the SC
too is also responsible for this disaster which is going to affect generations
of Indian students living abroad, to the detriment for the future of this
country.
I am not praying to GOD
for my granddaughter now. I am praying to GOD for India, the country which I and my brethren in the
forces shed their blood for, and what it has been reduced to now. A banana
Republic.
I hope "Satyamev
Jayate" still holds.
Thanks and Regards
I hope my readers re
tweet this and condemn this action against young and brilliant aspiring
Doctor students, who have lost an academic year and are undergoing severe
trauma for something for which they are neither to blame nor are responsible
for.
India is Great, a country which pampers, throws out all the regulations as well as rulings of the Supreme Court of India, for the student of an enemy country, but throws to
the dogs their own, by applying every conceivable comma and full stop in the regulations..
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