For all its promises to grant scholarships to medical students who are physically challenged, the state government's social welfare department is yet to put its money where its mouth is. For five years, MBBS students at KEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College have been forced to pay the entire fees out of their own pocket, with the authorities making yet more empty promises of refunding the money. Meanwhile, the college and the state are playing the blame game.

The KEM administration and social welfare department have done nothing but pass the buck to each other