New Delhi: Haryana Nurses Registration Council (HNRC) has been directed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to register the degrees of students pursuing nursing courses, obtained from Doon International University in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The directive was issued on the basis of a petition filed against the HNRC.
Justice K. Kannan, in view of a petition filed by Neelam Devi along with other petitioner against the HNRC and other respondents said that it is this degree alone which ensures them a job in the market. The petitioners who have completed the degree course in General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) are at sea when they find that the degree is not registered with the council.
As per sources, the disagreement of the petitioners revolves around the Doon International University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, which has been awarding degrees and is a university notified under the gazette notification dated November 7, 2003, established under the Chhattisgarh Niji Kshetra Vishwavidyalaya (Sthapana aur Viniyaman) Adhiniyam Act, 2002.
Further, Justice Kannan has announced that the degrees of the petitioners could not be registered because it has been obtained from the university set up under the Act. To further consider the matter, neither of the two, that is, neither the Punjab Nurses Registration Council nor the Government of Haryana did ever recognize the degree. In accordance to the apex court judgments, Justice Kannan added that, the institute in this case although did not had the state government's recognition but it had been affiliated to the university established under the Act.
