The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State government to appoint an Administrator forthwith to run the M.P. Nursing Council, subject to further orders of this Court.
The court directed the Government to appoint an Administrator forthwith to run the M.P. Nursing Council, subject to further orders of this Court.
Also the court ordered the Registrar shall hand over all documents and material to the Administrator of the Council.
The court order came in view after it found various material which are far from truth are being filed in the court by the MP Nursing Council registrar through affidavits.
The court order said the statements made by her (the registrar) on affidavit are shown to be false through affidavits of the petitioner.
A division bench of Chief Justice Ravi Malimath observed this is a very serious matter.
The Registrar seems to take it casually, the bench observed.
The bench said “we deem it just and necessary that the Registrar, M.P. Nursing Council, Bhopal be directed to be kept under suspension forthwith, subject to further orders of this Court”.
The court issued the direction during hearing of the PIL against the lack of infrastructure facilities in certain nursing colleges across the state.
The court said “we have seen the photographs. The same are quite shocking. There are certain sheds which have been shown as Colleges”.
“There is a broken room with a couple of vessels which is said to be the Laboratory. Photograph of a huge College structure is also being produced, however, there is a plastic board which indicates that it is one of the Nursing Colleges. Same is the photographs of certain other Colleges”, the court said.
The learned counsel for the petitioner has in turn filed an application
to take documents on record. He has also produced various photographs of the said Colleges as uploaded by the University and photographs of the actual Colleges, the court order said.
The counsel for MP Nursing Council took some time to report further developments related to infrastructure of the nursing colleges, the affiliation and any action.
