India, Feb. 2 -- Around 100 foreign medical graduate (FMG) interns at the Government Medical College (GMC), Ambernath, have not received their stipend for the past five months.

The Ambernath Citizens' Forum has informed Dr Ajay Chandanwale, acting vice-chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), about the issue and warned that if the stipends are not released soon, it will approach the Human Rights Commission and file a case against the college dean.

A Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) is an Indian citizen or Overseas Citizen of India who has obtained an MBBS or equivalent medical degree from a foreign medical college and wishes to practise medicine in India. FMGs are not allowed to practise directly after returning...