MP Government Orders Closure of 66 Nursing Colleges, Found Unsuitable in CBI Probe

 Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered closure of 66 nursing colleges across the state, found ‘unsuitable’ in a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The state medical education department issued a directive to the local district administrations to the effect.

Sources said that chief minister Mohan Yadav has asked the state medical education department to take action in the matter after the CBI, probing into irregularities in the nursing colleges in the state, submitted its findings to the Madhya Pradesh high court.

The state medical education department has however clarified that the students studying in these colleges would not be affected and their exams would be conducted.

The Madhya Pradesh high court had three years ago ordered CBI to probe into the alleged irregularities in the nursing colleges in the state following reports that some nursing colleges which have even no campuses were being run by some senior officers of state health department.

The state nursing council had cancelled affiliations of 19 colleges following the reports.

The CBI later began a probe into the functioning of 670 nursing colleges in the state.

In its report on 308 nursing colleges, the CBI has termed 169 colleges as ‘fit’, 66 as ‘unsuitable’ and 73 as ‘deficient’.

In a new twist to the CBI probe, three of its officers were named among 23 people in the FIR filed by the probe agency for being part of the nursing college scam.

The CBI is now seriously considering re-probing the matter following the development, sources said.