GU rap for docs helping wards in exams
Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi promises to crack down on doctors helping their children in medical examinations to ensure ‘free and fair’ results
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20120103201201030200245933d13db76/GU-rap-for-docs-helping-wards-in-exams.html)
It is finally out in the open. Gujarat University Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi has admitted there are indeed some doctors and parents who try to help out their children and wards in their medical examinations and that it is a challenge for the varsity to ensure “free and fair” examinations for medical and dental courses.
Parimal Trivedi on Monday said Gujarat University has now taken special steps to check this menace. As many as 1,500 students are appearing for the MBBS, dental and super specialisation examinations this year.
Malpractices have been reported in the practical examinations in the past, which the vice chancellor said are being closely monitored. There have been allegations of some examiners favouring a select few by posing easy questions in the viva voce while targeting others. This will be strictly dealt with, Trivedi said.
In the past there have been rampant allegations that an active syndicate member of Gujarat University ran an ‘organised’ racket to ‘help’ children of some prominent doctors appearing for the medical examinations.
The member is also alleged to have ensured that only selected examiners were given duty to conduct the viva voce. An oral complaint was even reportedly made to the then education minister.
A case even reached the high court. In May last year, Gujarat High Court had ruled in favour of Manoj Bansal who had topped the super speciality course of DM cardiology in 2009 but was denied the gold medal by Gujarat University, that refused to award him the medal because he had passed at second attempt. A division bench concluded that “number of attempts was not a constraint at all” in awarding the medal. The bench sent the issue back to the vice chancellor and registrar for reconsideration.
No cellphones for examiners
While students have been barred from taking mobile phones in the examination hall, examiners, too, have now been barred from carrying cellphones. Observers will be the custodian of all the mobile phones.
The vice-chancellor has also set up a three-member committee to look into complaints of students indulging in wrong practices to get more marks. Students using different coloured pens, making signs of swastika or Om in the paper, using coloured staples or coloured threads to tie the papers to differentiate their answer paper from the others will be strictly dealt with, Trivedi said. The panel will scrutinise these papers, and if any student is found to have indulged in any illegal activity, he/she will be barred from appearing in the examinations for two years, he said.
The university will also increase flying squads to keep an eye on any wrongdoing. “We will also analyse the results to check if a particular centre has got unusually high marks and another centre has got comparatively low marks,” Trivedi said.
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20120103201201030200245933d13db76/GU-rap-for-docs-helping-wards-in-exams.html)
It is finally out in the open. Gujarat University Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi has admitted there are indeed some doctors and parents who try to help out their children and wards in their medical examinations and that it is a challenge for the varsity to ensure “free and fair” examinations for medical and dental courses.
Parimal Trivedi on Monday said Gujarat University has now taken special steps to check this menace. As many as 1,500 students are appearing for the MBBS, dental and super specialisation examinations this year.
Malpractices have been reported in the practical examinations in the past, which the vice chancellor said are being closely monitored. There have been allegations of some examiners favouring a select few by posing easy questions in the viva voce while targeting others. This will be strictly dealt with, Trivedi said.
In the past there have been rampant allegations that an active syndicate member of Gujarat University ran an ‘organised’ racket to ‘help’ children of some prominent doctors appearing for the medical examinations.
The member is also alleged to have ensured that only selected examiners were given duty to conduct the viva voce. An oral complaint was even reportedly made to the then education minister.
A case even reached the high court. In May last year, Gujarat High Court had ruled in favour of Manoj Bansal who had topped the super speciality course of DM cardiology in 2009 but was denied the gold medal by Gujarat University, that refused to award him the medal because he had passed at second attempt. A division bench concluded that “number of attempts was not a constraint at all” in awarding the medal. The bench sent the issue back to the vice chancellor and registrar for reconsideration.
No cellphones for examiners
While students have been barred from taking mobile phones in the examination hall, examiners, too, have now been barred from carrying cellphones. Observers will be the custodian of all the mobile phones.
The vice-chancellor has also set up a three-member committee to look into complaints of students indulging in wrong practices to get more marks. Students using different coloured pens, making signs of swastika or Om in the paper, using coloured staples or coloured threads to tie the papers to differentiate their answer paper from the others will be strictly dealt with, Trivedi said. The panel will scrutinise these papers, and if any student is found to have indulged in any illegal activity, he/she will be barred from appearing in the examinations for two years, he said.
The university will also increase flying squads to keep an eye on any wrongdoing. “We will also analyse the results to check if a particular centre has got unusually high marks and another centre has got comparatively low marks,” Trivedi said.
