The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declared that the Indian Nursing Council (INC) has no authority to grant recognition to institutions imparting nursing courses. It restrained the INC from publishing on its website material indicating that the institutions have to obtain recognition from it.
The court held that the council is empowered to prescribe qualification and syllabus for nursing courses, and not to accord recognition to colleges.
Justice L. Narayana Swamy delivered the verdict while allowing petitions filed by the Karnataka State Association of the Managements of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Institutions, and some nursing colleges.
Also, the court said that all such stands withdrawn from the INC’s website forthwith.
The action of the INC claiming that nursing colleges have to get recognition from it, publishing the list of recognised colleges, and releasing any such material on its website, would cause hardship to petitioners and nursing colleges as students, who visit the website would infer that colleges which are not in the list, are not recognised.
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1. First of all, colleges where they study are approved by KNC
2. Registration to Nepalese Nursing Students which was being seized by INC in the year 2013 can be re introduced by KNC.
3. There wont be any problem of internship or working any where in India if the verdict is accepted by all the states.
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