MMC alumni downplay JK grounds acquisition 

In a growing ire against the Transport Minister's proposal to shift
the city bus stand to the J.K. Grounds, the Alumni Association of
Mysore Medical College on Saturday asserted that J K Grounds was an
exclusive property of the Mysore Medical college validated through a
govt order of 2004.

Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, G.S. Venkatesh, president of
the association and a retired superintendent of the college said that
the ground was MMCs since the inception of college by Krishnaraja
Wadiyar, 1924.

A government order no. 199 MSF/2004 has concluded the grounds as part
and parcel of the MMC, while the play ground remains with the college
since 1924. The government order corroborated and regularised
conflicting claims, he pointed.

As per Medical Council of India rules, a medical college must
compulsorily have a sports ground for recognition.

The governments move, if effected would strip the MMC of its recognition.