*Students protest in Baramulla as INC withdraws recognition for St. Joseph Nursing courses*
Baramulla, Sep 18, A protest broke out in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday morning after students of St. Joseph Nursing Institute staged a demonstration against the Indian Nursing Council’s (INC) decision to withdraw national recognition for the institute’s nursing programmes. The move has raised alarm among hundreds of students whose degrees now risk being rendered invalid outside Jammu and Kashmir.
Carrying placards and raising slogans, the agitating students blocked traffic on the busy Baramulla–Srinagar highway for nearly half an hour. They appealed to the Jammu and Kashmir administration as well as the Union Health Ministry to urgently intervene and restore recognition, warning that their academic future was in jeopardy.
The INC, in a recent order, stated that its recognition for St. Joseph’s courses was being withdrawn due to serious deficiencies found during an inspection
