Shri. Manish Kumar Ranjan v. The Union Of India And ORS.
IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
[CIRCUIT BENCH AT PORT BLAIR] ...
WPA/673/2023 Manish Kumar Ranjan Vs.
The Union of India and others Mrs. Anjili Nag ... for the petitioner Mr. Shatadru Chakraborty Mr. Ramendu Agarwal ... for the respondent Nos.2 and 6 April 26, 2023 (SR) Item No.14 Affidavit of service filed on behalf of the petitioner be kept with the record.
Mr. Shatadru Chakraborty appears on behalf of the respondent nos.2 and 6 and other respondents are not represented in spite of service.
The petitioner, in the year 2015, was admitted in MBBS course in Andaman and Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences and has completed the academic course in the said college which shall be followed by one year compulsory rotating internship.
The petitioner is claiming that in terms of the Medical Council of India Regulation on Graduate Medical Education 1997 ( amended upto May 2018), he is entitled to undergo such internship in any institutions of India. His further allegation is that the subsequent regulations 2021 governing the internship and the mandate of the said Regulation that the Indian Medical Graduates have to complete their entire
period of Compulsory Rotating Internship in the Institution where they have persuaded and completed their MBBS is not applicable to the petitioner.
The petitioner therefore by the present writ application is praying inter alia a direction upon the National Medical Commission, the respondent no.4 herein, to pass an order permitting the Dean of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences (ANIIMS), the respondent no.6 herein, to issue no objection certificate to the petitioner permitting him to pursue his internship at Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, Bhainsakhedi, neaer Bairagarh, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Pin - 462030.
Mrs. Nag, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that her client petitioner has given a representation to the Chairman, National Medical Commission, New Delhi, the respondent no.4 herein, for the aforesaid relief but the same has not yet been disposed of. She prays that the said respondent may be directed to consider and dispose of the said representation.
The said representation of the petitioner is at appearing at page 91 of the writ petition.
The respondent no.4 is directed to dispose of the said representation expeditiously in accordance with law preferably within a period of two months from the date of communication of this order and shall communicate his decision to the petitioner.
WPA/673/2023 is thus disposed of without any order as to costs.
All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.
Urgent certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the learned advocates for the respective parties upon compliance of usual formalities.
( Biswajit Basu, J.)