Students want course extended

The duration of the same course in the only other physiotherapy school in Ahmedabad too was of five years, the students pointed out, adding that even the new school in Anand had the same course stretched out in four-and-a-half-years, while their school, which was the oldest, had a shorter duration course.

According to students8217; representatives Viral Goradia and Ekta Agrawal, though the Indian Association of Physiotherapy was trying to make all courses available with the institutes as per the international standard, so as to create a healthy competition among the students when in profession, no one would be interested in absorbing physiotherapists from the city when there were students with much more academic experience.

Though, the school principal C G Padole claimed that proposal in this context had already been sent to the Maharaja Sayaji rao University authorities to examine the issue and take it up with the higher authorities in Gandhinagar, Pro-Vice Chancellor Deepak Kumar De denied receiving any such proposal.

Meanwhile, the students have threatened to launch an agitation if the duration of their course was not be increased from August.