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MP High Court Orders BHMS Registration Despite College Dispute
A group of students finished their homoeopathy medical course and received their degrees.
They had first been given provisional registration by the State Council of Homoeopathy.
The students later completed their required internship and asked for permanent registration.
The council did not decide their applications because the college’s permission for their admission year was disputed.
The students said they should not be punished for a disagreement involving their college and government authorities.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court agreed that the students had followed the official admission process.
The court said the council must consider their applications instead of leaving them undecided.
This order requires consideration of registration applications, rather than automatically granting permanent registration.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the State Council of Homoeopathy to consider permanent-registration applications from BHMS graduates.
The students completed their course, examinations, compulsory internship, and received final degrees after provisional registration in 2023.
They were admitted through the state AYUSH counselling process under a 2017 interim court order and enrolled by Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University.
The college’s permission to admit students during the 2017-18 academic session was disputed because of alleged regulatory deficiencies.
The court said the council could not keep the applications pending indefinitely over a dispute between the college and regulatory authorities.
- Who
- BHMS graduates from Vasundhara Raje Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, the State Council of Homoeopathy, and the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- What
- The High Court directed the State Council of Homoeopathy to consider the graduates’ applications for permanent registration.
- Where
- The dispute was heard by the Madhya Pradesh High Court and concerns a college in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
- When
- The court issued the order on September 9; the students applied for permanent registration in July 2025.
- Why
- The court said students who completed their education, examinations, internship, and degrees should not suffer because of an unresolved regulatory dispute involving their college.
Students’ position
Regulatory authorities’ concern
Effect of the college dispute
Students’ position
The students argued that they should not be penalized because they were admitted through state AYUSH counselling, completed all academic requirements, and received degrees.
Regulatory authorities’ concern
The authorities questioned whether the college’s permission and recognition covered the students’ 2017-18 admissions, including concerns that their names were absent from the relevant approved or QR-coded list.
Permanent registration
Students’ position
The students sought consideration of permanent registration after completing their course, examinations, internship, and provisional registration.
Regulatory authorities’ concern
The State Council of Homoeopathy had not granted or rejected the applications while the regulatory dispute involving the college and the National Commission for Homoeopathy remained unresolved.
Key facts
- Court
- Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Judge
- Justice Milind Ramesh Phadke
- Students’ qualification
- Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS)
- College
- Vasundhara Raje Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Gwalior
- Provisional registration
- Granted by the State Council of Homoeopathy in 2023
- Permanent-registration applications
- Submitted in July 2025
- Disputed academic session
- 2017-18
Quotes
Justice Milind Ramesh Phadke
Madhya Pradesh High Court judge who issued the order
“The petitioners have already crossed the stage of admission; they have completed the course and internship and have been awarded degrees. At this stage, their claim is not for permission to commence or continue an unauthorised course but for consideration of their applications for permanent registration on the basis of the qualification which they have acquired.”
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“The regulatory dispute between the institution and the authorities cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely at the cost of the students who have completed their education under the supervision of the competent authorities and whose academic qualification has already been recognised to the extent of granting provisional registration and awarding degrees.”
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