Medical College owned by Medical Mission Kolanchery is in the news for wrong reasons.The so called Inter Church council of which Kolanchery is the only non Catholic organisation has been granted the position of its spokesman .Very clever move by the Catholic Church in passing off the ill will and bad name that is generated out of the daylight robbery in the name of Medical College admissions to MOC,who has nothing to do with Kolanchery Medical College.Of course ,there can be no denying the fact that the name board of the Medical College has Moc's name prominently encrypted.It is also a fact that Kolanchery Medical Mission in its initial days had close links with the church.At that point of time it was lead by people with good intentions like Dr K.C.Mammen.During the early days ,help of L/L Philipose Mar Theophilose and Fr Paul Varghese(later Paulose Mar Gregoriose)were valuable in raising funds.Substantial funds came in since the donors mistook it as an institution of MOC(which it was for all practical purposes at that point of time)
Today things are different.Except for the mention on the name board and a decorative post to one of the Bishops of the Church,there is nothing that the institution has in common with the Church.It is administered by a group of rich and influential men in and around Kolanchery.The sole purpose of the organisation is to amass wealth by collecting exorbitant capitation and tution fees.The inter church Medical colleges refuse to follow any other guidance from Government or even Medical Council of India.They use the minority rights as a shield to their plunder and are managing to get favourable court orders which are a mystery to those knowledgeable in legal matters.Minority rights are now being interpreted as the right to run educational institutions on their own terms.The terms that are acceptable to MES and other minority institutions are not acceptable to inter church council who believes that it is their right to plunder just because they are classified as minority institution.
They are not prepared to consider weaker sections of minority community for admissions and some small mercy in fees etc,which can aptly be termed as booty.Former Chief Minister and present Defence minister lamented in public that the institutions who got the Govt NOC on the promise that 50% students will be admitted in self financing colleges based on Merritt had gone back and managed to get court orders such that they can loot the people at large.And the irony is that Christian institutions were the ones in the forefront of this unscrupulous move.Its another matter whether a seasoned and efficient politician like Antony was knave enough to accept the oral statements as gospel truth,given the track record of the members of the inter church council.But it does not absolve the perpetuaters of the crime of their sins.
Why should MOC carry on its shoulder the burden of ill will,bad name and ridicule in the public eye for the omissions and commissions of an institution which it has nothing to do with
Today things are different.Except for the mention on the name board and a decorative post to one of the Bishops of the Church,there is nothing that the institution has in common with the Church.It is administered by a group of rich and influential men in and around Kolanchery.The sole purpose of the organisation is to amass wealth by collecting exorbitant capitation and tution fees.The inter church Medical colleges refuse to follow any other guidance from Government or even Medical Council of India.They use the minority rights as a shield to their plunder and are managing to get favourable court orders which are a mystery to those knowledgeable in legal matters.Minority rights are now being interpreted as the right to run educational institutions on their own terms.The terms that are acceptable to MES and other minority institutions are not acceptable to inter church council who believes that it is their right to plunder just because they are classified as minority institution.
They are not prepared to consider weaker sections of minority community for admissions and some small mercy in fees etc,which can aptly be termed as booty.Former Chief Minister and present Defence minister lamented in public that the institutions who got the Govt NOC on the promise that 50% students will be admitted in self financing colleges based on Merritt had gone back and managed to get court orders such that they can loot the people at large.And the irony is that Christian institutions were the ones in the forefront of this unscrupulous move.Its another matter whether a seasoned and efficient politician like Antony was knave enough to accept the oral statements as gospel truth,given the track record of the members of the inter church council.But it does not absolve the perpetuaters of the crime of their sins.
Why should MOC carry on its shoulder the burden of ill will,bad name and ridicule in the public eye for the omissions and commissions of an institution which it has nothing to do with
What the author says is more than 100% corrrect.The Churh has no role in its administration or day to day functioning. It is truely a BLADE institution run by BLADE men. The Church should disown it or the Church should take over the management.
ReplyDeletemisusing our Church's name to retain minority status.atleast 25% seats should be reserved for our community or stop using the name "Malankara Orthodox Church" in the college's name.
ReplyDeletemr thomas chandys openien is correct101%ABOUT.kolencherry .catholic church use our sabha very cleverley.interchurch council is acting like a parellel goverment.y our bishops attending meeting with duplicate catholicos.our church has no any roll in management or admission process.misusing our church name they got minority status.if again interchurch council held a meeting at devalokam aramana our church people should go devalokam and raise our sound aganiest decistion of interchurch council.MY REQUEST TO MY SABHA M.O.C SHOULD RESIGN FROM INTERCHURCH COUNCIL.OUR CHURCH IS NOT A TOY OF CATHOLIC CHURCH.
ReplyDeleteWhy our church should bear the blame for the benefit of others. If Kolenchery MC is not under our church management, the Managing Committee and Synod must resolve the issue and extricate our relationship with Interchurch Council. Now a days, all the people in Kerala are cursing the ICC for their steadfast stand for the INJustice.
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