BENGALURU: Contending that the single bench order left many students, including 1,500 students from Africa pursuing nursing courses in the lurch, an appeal has been filed before the High Court against its single bench order that the Indian Nursing Council (INC) has no authority to grant recognition to the institutions imparting nursing courses in the State.
Declining to stay the order, a division bench comprising the Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice P S Dinesh Kumar adjourned the hearing of the appeal filed by INC, Adichunchanagiri College of Nursing, Mandya and 20 others to August 21.
While pronouncing the judgement of a batch of petitions filed by the Karnataka State Association of the Management of Nursing and Allied Health Science Institutions and others on July 24, 2017, the single bench also restrained the INC from publishing on its website materials indicating that the institutions imparting nursing courses have to obtain recognition from it. Challenging this order, the INC and some nursing colleges have filed an appeal.
The appellants contended that large number of nursing students, including around 1,500 students from Africa are in trouble because of the single bench order as their courses will not be recognised anywhere else.