HC restrains university from conducting bridge course

Updated on: Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Madras HC restrained Tamil Nadu Dr MGR University from implementing six month bridge course, for government employees with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) enabling them to appear for Master of Physiotherapy (MPT) examinations.

Granting the interim injunction on a petition from city resident, G Utham, a post-graduate in physiotherapy, Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar ordered notice to the university.
 
Pointing out that those completing the six month course would become eligible for appearing for MPT examination in their respective electives, the petitioner submitted that the period of the certified study for MPT was two years.
 
Stating that the university had already drawn up regulations for the post graduate course, the petitioner claimed that the aim of the university was "to reduce the decorum of the physiotherapy curriculum".
 
The bridge course, the petitioner said, was objectionable from the physiotherapists' point of view.

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