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By Satender Chauhan: The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, has barred 36 nursing students from leaving the hostel for a week after they skipped a session where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 100th episode of Mann ki Baat radio programme was broadcast last month.
The PGIMER authorities had issued a written order stating that all nursing students from National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE) should participate in the event in the campus, where the Mann ki Baat address was broadcast on April 30.
However, 28 third-year nursing students and eight first-year nursing students did not listen to the Prime Minister’s radio address. When they did not provide any reason for not attending the session, PGIMER authorities asked them not to leave the hostel for a week.
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ORDER ISSUED AS PART OF REGULAR CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
In a statement issued on Thursday, the PGIMER defended its decision to allow the nursing students of NINE to listen to PM Modi’s radio broadcast.
“This instruction was given purely with an intent to enable them to attend the afore-mentioned episode as a part of their regular curricular activities wherein talks, guest lectures and discussions are arranged regularly by best speakers, experts,professionals to impart them value education,” it said.
“Rather, in an earlier episode, the Prime Minister had interacted with an organ donor family, a case of transplnatation from PGIMER, to promote the noble cause of organ donation, which was hugely morale boosting and invigorated more interest in the episode,” the institute stated.
It said authorities took action against the 36 nursing students as they did not gave any reason for skipping the event.
“Since, some of the students did not share any reason for not attending the session and abstained from the event arranged for them in a lecture theatre, the college authorities took action against them,” the PGIMER said.
It further said, “Though it was little over-reaction on the part of the college authorities and the concerned have already been conveyed the displeasure of PGIMER administration.
The institute said the issue should not be “given any other connotation or blown out of proportion in the larger public interest”.
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