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Despite 97%, he couldn’t get a medical seat in India: Father of Indian killed in Ukraine
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Dais Newsfeed | 02/03/2022 03:08 PM | Click to read full article
On Tuesday, an Indian student was killed by Russian shelling in the war-torn Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The 21-year-old’s father, after his son’s death, said that “despite scoring 97 per cent in PUC, my son could not secure a medical seat in State. To get a medical seat one has to give crores of rupees, and students are getting the same education abroad spending less money.”