Haryana Minister Anil Vij today asked the chief secretary to investigate the issuance of NOC and Letter of Intent (LoI) to a Jind-based education society despite a ban on the same.
The society had sent its application for opening a nursing college during the previous government, but the present dispensation imposed a ban on issuance of NOCs and LOIs to any such college till the formation of new nursing policy in the state, the Haryana Health Minister observed, according to an official release issued here.
In spite of that, the education society got NOC (no objection certificate) and LOI, he noted.
Vij also directed the chief secretary to take strict and disciplinary actions against those employees and officials found involved in this matter, the release said.
The minister alleged that some of the department officials, who are Congress loyalists, did not let the files go through the minister and had passed these files at their own level to give approval to the society.
"This is the reason the quality of students passing out from nursing colleges are not upto the mark," he said.
The senior BJP leader and minister said the government was formulating new nursing policy on which most of the work has been completed.
"The policy would be announced soon... After this, NOCs and LOIs would be issued for opening new nursing college on merit basis. In future, special attention would be paid to impart quality education to students so that after passing out from college, they immediately get a job," he said.
