MP Government Orders Closure of 66 Nursing Colleges, Found Unsuitable in CBI Probe
Deccan ChronicleBhopal: 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. 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 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. In its report on 308 nursing colleges, the CBI has termed 169 colleges as ‘fit’, 66 as ‘unsuitable’ and 73 as ‘deficient’.