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PGMET CANCELLED
PGMET CANCELLED, Governor E S L Narasimhan has ordered cancellation of the Post Graduate Medical Entrance Test (PGMET 2014), following incriminating evidence submitted by CID sleuths who established that widespread irregularities have taken place in conducting the examination.
Hyderabad: Governor E S L Narasimhan has ordered cancellation of the Post Graduate Medical Entrance Test (PGMET 2014), following incriminating evidence submitted by CID sleuths who established that widespread irregularities have taken place in conducting the examination.
Principal Secretary (Health) L V Subrahmanyam met A N Roy, the Adviser to Governor, on Wednesday and discussed the issue. Later, both of them reportedly briefed the Governor, impressing upon him the need to cancel the test and conduct it afresh. Accordingly, the Governor directed the Vice-Chancellor of NTR University of Health Sciences to cancel the exam and conduct it again at the earliest.
Top sources in the University told The Hans India that the test is likely to be conducted by the end of April, so that counseling can be completed before July 7, the deadline set by the Medical Council of India (MCI) to finish the process of post- graduate admissions.
The university authorities have reportedly told the government officials that they need at least three weeks time to conduct the exam again. “We have to entrust the work to new paper-setters. Fresh numbering has to be done and new printers have to be identified. The students have to be jumbled and so many precautionary measures have also to be taken. All this is not possible overnight. It takes more than 20 days time.
That’s what we told the government,” Dr Ravi Raju, the Vice-Chancellor of NTR University of Health Sciences, said. “Even if we hold the test at the month-end, another 20-25 days is needed for the declaration of results,” he added.
A decision on the exact date is likely to be announced on Thursday or Friday, sources said.
The University is veering round to the idea of making everything afresh. The staff will also be changed and there is no chance of involvement of any ad hoc or outsourcing staff, it is learnt. The Vice-Chancellor has also made it clear that the online examination cannot be conducted right now. ‘It needs some degree of preparation and widespread arrangements” he said.
The Governor’s decision is learnt to be mostly based on CID report which specifically stated that a huge scam has taken place and many meritorious students have lost a chance in the process. The CID has been continuing its hunt to nab some more scamsters who are evading its dragnet.
So far, the investigating agency has arrested eight persons and six of them are students. The CID teams are on the hunt for the brokers who formed a syndicate to cash in on the leakage of the question papers, which is suspected to be the handiwork of some staff in the examination wing of the university.
Huge amounts ranging from Rs 80 lakh to Rs 1 crore were allegedly collected from some of the aspirants who had fallen prey to the offer of the syndicate.
