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Hindutva Empties a Kashmiri Medical School

New school shut after Muslims outclassify Hindus

Jan 19, 2026
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By: Nirupama Subramanian

India’s government has often boasted about setting up more medical schools so that more students could aspire to become doctors, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2022 announcing that the country would have “a record number of doctors” due to his government’s policy of establishing at least one medical school in every district.

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