Re-exam likely for PG medicine admissions......Deccan Chronicle.... Hyderabad: The state government is likely to conduct a re-exam for PG medical admissions for the coming academic year, 2014-15, after being hit by controversy. Students complained of question paper leakage and large-scale irregularities in the results announced recently by the NTR. University of Health Sciences. The state government appointed a committee to inquire into the issue following the directions of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan. The committee is likely to recommend a re- test to clear doubts among students. Inquiry committee chairman Prof. L. Venugopala Reddy, also the chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education, said that the committee will submit its report to the government in a week. Prof. Reddy has been receiving complaints from students at the public hearings held at the Nagarjuna University since March 20. “We have received a lot of complaints from students regarding irregularities during the examination. Though the students could not submit any concrete evidence to support their complaints, it is clear that there are many doubts surrounding the entire exam process. We will incorporate these issues in our report and make suitable recommendations,” said Prof. Reddy. Official sources said the committee is in favour of conducting a re-examination to remove the doubts of the students in a transparent manner and to avoid legal hassles in future. Officials also said that that the Medical Council of India follows strict norms regarding the schedule for admissions, and any delay would jeopardise the entire admission process, particularly if students approach courts challenging the exams and results. _____________________________ PG medical exam scam: CBI likely to take over probe - TOI ... VIJAYAWADA: The probe committee on alleged irregularities in conduct of PG medical entrance exam is likely to recommend investigation either by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CID. Although, no concrete evidence has been found in the initial inquiry to name scamsters, the committee is convinced that the mystery behind top rankers needs to be cracked by a police agency. The one-man committee headed by state higher education council chairman L Venugopala Reddy continued its probe into allegations for the second day on Friday at NTR University of Health Sciences here. According to sources, the committee is rushing back to the capital and is expected to submit its initial report to Governor ESL Narasimhan on Saturday. Significantly, Reddy observed something fishy when he found certain candidates had failed to get MBBS seats through Eamcet in the state, but secured top ranks in the PG entrance exam. We have doubts particularly about 13 candidates securing top ranks in the PG entrance. Incidentally, 8 of them belong to Guntur district, Venugopala Reddy told reporters. Venugopal Rao said the committee had completed its initial inquiry. He, however, said nothing suspicious with the OMR sheets of top rankers was found. Many students and their parents who lodged complaints have requested for a CBI probe into the whole issue. Sources said the committee is of strong suspicion that chances of question papers getting leaked prior to the examination are high. In case, the governor decides to order police investigation into the issue, the health university may be directed to postpone admissions to the PG stream till completion of the investigation. Counseling for Post Graduate admissions is slated to begin on April15 and has to be completed before May 31. ____________________________ PG medical exam scam: Doctors allege involvement of medical varsity staff.....TOI HYDERABAD: Brokers, in alleged connivance with some staffers of the NTR University of Health Sciences, pulled off one of the biggest scams in the history of post-graduate medical entrance examination, a doctors body as well as highly-placed sources said. While the exact number of candidates who secured top ranks through malpractice is still being probed, the Association of Junior Doctors has pegged the number between 250 and 300. Sources said the scam could be worth at least Rs.100 crore, as questions were leaked out depending on the amount of money a candidate was willing to shell out. I was expecting a rank within 200, but because of this scam my rank has plunged to 600. I wrote other entrance tests as well and bagged the 179th rank in the Manipal University post-graduate entrance exam, said an aggrieved Dr K Samyukta. Lots of students like me, who genuinely worked hard for a year, have received a huge blow. Questions in varying numbers were leaked out to candidates to help them score more, she added. The PG medical entrance test was conducted by the NTR health varsity on March 2, with as many as 15,000 aspirants vying for 2,240 seats. Of the total seats, around 1500 belong to government medical colleges. Trouble broke out when the results showed that a large section of students had secured above 165 marks, with the top ranker securing 180 marks, which is a first in the history of the exam. Doctors said foul play was evident because the paper this year was the toughest in the entire decade. Instead of indulging in such a crime, they could have bought seats at a private medical college with the same or a little more money. But hopes of more exposure in government colleges made them approach brokers, said Dr Sri Charan Teja Nalisetty, a candidate who secured the 706th rank despite doing well. I belong to the open category. Had I got a rank below 500, I would have got a seat in a clinical department. My rank dipped because of the fraudsters, he addedsaid Dr Nalisetty, who prepared for the exam for a year-and-a- half. Sources said that just days before the exams, some brokers had called up several students claiming to have access to questions papers, which they were ready to sell. We want a CBI inquiry. Without the involvement of the NTR University staff, this scam would not have happened, alleged Dr Kranthi Chaitanya, president, Junior Doctors Association (Gandhi Medical College wing). In the wake of the scam, experts have demanded that the varsity should not have access to the question papers. We have been hearing such allegations for several years now. An independent authority should be roped in to handle the examination. Only then can we expect a foolproof mechanism, said Dr K Ramesh Reddy, member, Medical Council of India. With each post graduate seat costing more than Rs.1 crore, one can imagine the scope of the fraud that can occur, he added. Dr A Y Chary, who retired as director of medical education, said the nexus runs deep within the system. This should be probed, proved and curbed, and serious action should be taken against those involved, he said.
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