Tamil Nadu health minister urges Centre to help Ukraine-returned medical students
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Ma Subramanian said the Tamil Nadu government will urge the Centre to ensure the further education of medical students who were forced to return home due to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian has assured help to medical students who returned from war-torn Ukraine. He said that the state will urge the Centre to ensure the further education of medical students who had to be evacuated following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ma Subramanian said, "The central government is the one who has to do this. We have given recommendation from our end. Just like the syllabus in Ukraine, we have urged that our students be sent to similar places where that form of syllabus is used. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said in Parliament that they are looking into the list of countries. We will urge the minister when we are to meet him next week. It is part of our agenda."
During the state budget speech in March this year, finance minister also assured that the state government will help the students who have returned from Ukraine to continue their education in India or abroad.
Last month, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to take necessary steps to secure the future of the medical students who have returned from Ukraine.
In the letter, MK Stalin sought PM Modi's attention towards the "anxiety among students due to the recent reply in Lok Sabha with reference to the status of the medical students who have returned from Ukraine".
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