Dental college faces closure, pupils to be transferred

Updated on: Thursday, January 12, 2012

For eight months, every student of Guardian Dental College (GDC) in Ambernath has not been attending classes. Reason: no lectures are being held there.

Recently, both Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) and Dental Council of India (DCI) withdrew the college’s rights to admit new students. So, students claimed, the college management left them in the lurch and abruptly ended classes.

That was followed by several students’ protests, which led to the MUHS conducting an inspection and then coming up with a way to protect the interests of these pupils. The university has decided that the college should be shut down and all 57 students, from the first, second and third years, be shifted to other private institutes.

Dr Mansing Pawar, dean of Government Dental College (Mumbai), who is on the MUHS inspection panel, said students would have to fill in their preferences in the next two days and then be shifted to a new institute. “We have put up the number of vacant seats, which each private college has, on the university website. Students can fill in their choices accordingly,” said Dr Pawar.

GDC began operations in 2009 under the aegis of Shaan Education Society. The university’s inspection report said the college did not have the required infrastructure; there weren’t enough faculty members either. Students alleged that many of them paid the fees and were hoping that the MUHS would settle the matter with the new college they are transferred to.

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