GOVIND GAURAV PANDEY Vs. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner is challenging the decision taken by Registrar, Uttarakhand Nurses and Midwives Counsel, Dehradun (respondent no. 6), communicated to him vide order dtd. 12/10/2021, whereby his application for registration of M.Sc. Nursing qualification in the register of Uttarakhand Nurses and Midwives Council, was rejected.

(2.) Facts on which, there is no dispute is that petitioner's B.Sc. Nursing Degree, which he obtained from Kumaon University is duly registered with respondent no. 6. Subsequently, petitioner took admission in two years' M.Sc. Nursing Course in Arihant College of Nursing, Haridwar and upon successful completion of the said course, M.Sc. Nursing Degree was awarded to him by H.N.B. Uttarakhand Medical Education University, Dehradun.

(3.) Petitioner applied for registration of his M.Sc. Nursing Degree to respondent no. 6 and also deposited registration fee of Rs.2,550.00 on 30/6/2020. His application has been rejected by the impugned order dtd. 12/10/2021 on the ground that petitioner served as Nursing Tutor in some other Nursing College (respondent no. 5) upto 16/4/2018, therefore, he did not attend the M.Sc. Nursing Programme, during Academic Session 2017-2018, regularly.