IMAM India SC... yet a dream in progress

It was an idea shared in common by many especially those who frequent the surau. Regardless whether the person comes from bangalore or mangalore, the idea comes to a meeting point. I believe the idea has been circulating around for years. But none comes forward to initiate it until one day a girl from bangalore urges a few person who has been talking these idea around without action to come and meet. It's the idea of forming IMAM India Student Chapter. Finally insyaAllah the idea is on the move, progressing at a fast rate.

IMAM which stands for Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia has been donned as a successful platform for Malaysian muslim medical related course students to fulfill their activism needs. IMAM has a humble beginning which seeds out from the idea of 5 muslim doctors back in the 1980's. Since then it has spurred out to become a large NGO gathering muslim doctors all over Malaysia, running Muslim agendas through professionalism.

Now that IMAM has student chapters all over the world; UK, Ireland, Russia, and Chezch Republic. I am not so sure whether IMAM has their wing in Egypt or not. However now we are about to see the emergence of IMAM's wing in India. I reserve my will to exaggerate this as there are still many obstacles ahead. We are still at the very seed of its establishment.

Let us first peek into the scenario in India. Malaysian population here in India has its own niche. Firstly its interesting to note that there are nearly a thousand Malaysian students scattered here in the region of South India. This number is expected to be growing as provisionally, Malaysian government are sending more students to India. This scenario can be credited to the fact that the cost is much lower and it is said that the quality of the graduates are better.

Secondly, due to geographical constraints and facility defects in India, students from different institutions are much disconnected to each other. This brought us to a scenario where students from different institutions tend to mind their own business rather than getting together for a beneficial gathering of any cause. In simpler words, Malaysian students in India in general are not united.

In effect to the fact that students are not generally united I observed that students in India are not much exposed to extracurricular activism that can help them to develop awareness that they are not becoming doctor for no clear reason; that can help them to realize that they are actually has dive into a profession so challenging and interesting that they can't afford to merely pass the course. There are something extracurricular that they must pursue in preparing themselves in becoming a real good doctor. I believe that these extracurricular factors are not being served to students in normal Indian classroom routines.

Hence come the IMAM idea to propel and fill up this vacuum. The main idea is to help students realizing at least their purpose of becoming doctors. Besides I am also hopefuls that this organization will be able to spark off the spirit of volunteerism among the medical students which is in my belief is an important niche of a good Muslim doctors. Inevitably, if IMAM were to be a reality one day this will be the first organization that really gathers Malaysia students to one point; and in fact this meeting point is a very beneficial one as it is based on the spirit of medical professionalism not merely empty hari raya fun.

As I said before, it's an idea shared by many who has been indirectly inspired by their colleagues in the western world. Now only we came to spark off the propeller's engine. The jet has not yet moved but the engine has been started. The roll balling of IMAM India will start with a simple weekend program. This program will mark the real emergence of IMAM as an effective organisation gathering Muslim Malaysian Medical students in India. InsyaAllah I'm optimistic to see a new dawn in India.