Patna, Aug 9 (IANS) Thanks to Andhra Pradesh police’s verification drive, 40 degrees and provisional certificates issued in the name of a Bihar university have been found to be fake, officials said Tuesday.
Officials of Magadh University in Gaya were stunned to find the fake papers presented by Andhra Police for verification.
The Madras High Court has imposed a cost of Rs.1 lakh each on 18 private engineering colleges across the State for making “illegal and fraudulent” admissions under the NRI (Non-Resident Indian) quota even before the issuance of government guidelines for academic year 2009-10, reports the Hindu
Army College of Medical Sciences (ACMS) denies admission to general category medical aspirants even after a Delhi high court order directing the college administration to fill vacant seats with general category students.
Some general category students, who got high scores in the all-India medical entrance test, were called in for special counselling, but did not get admission.
The problem began when the ACMS administration sought court permission to allow it to lower the percentage needed for it to complete the admission procedure so that it could admit students from armed forces background. The ACMS administration, however, asked the administration to give general category students a chance.
“Every such seat is highly precious since a large number of meritorious candidates are desirous of, and waiting to get admission. Each such seat is a national asset and it would not be desirable to let them go waste. A seat left unfilled in any academic session remains vacant till the end of the course and the period of the MBBS course is nearly 5 years,” said judge Vipil Sanghi in his order.
But even though around 45 of the 100 seats are still vacant, the ACMS administration is not accepting applications from meritorious students. Angered by delay in the admission procedure and flouting of court orders by the medical institute, the parents of aggrieved medical aspirants are going to knock on the doors of the Delhi high court to demand that their wards be given admission in the college.
ACMS is run through army welfare funds and is exclusively for wards of serving army, ex-army personnel and war widows. There are about 12 professional colleges, including engineering, run by the army. The ACMS is different from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, which takes civilians after an all-India entrance test. Once they complete AFMC, the MBBS students become army doctors. However, ACMS is like any other medical college and the students do not have to compulsorily join the army.
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Candidates who are caught adopting unfair means during examinations deserved no leniency
Students who cheat during exams better watch out as the Supreme Court has advised the authorities to use an iron hand to check such malpractices which affect the country’s progress and academic standards.
The usual apology that follows from a candidate caught red-handed with a chit or other material to gain unfair advantage will not do, said a Bench comprising Justices Altamas Kabir and Markandey Katju. Acceptance of apology to pardon him of the charge of unfair means would only amount to “misplaced sympathy”, the court said, adding, “We are of the firm opinion that in academic matters, there should be strict discipline and malpractices should be severely punished.”
The Bench added, “If our country is to progress, we must maintain high educational standards, and this is only possible if malpractices in examinations are curbed with an iron hand.”
It disapproved of the lenient view taken by a single judge Bench of Delhi High Court, which had quashed an institute’s decision to detain the student for a year. The HC had felt that the student’s apology was enough.
The lenient view of the HC was also based on the student’s plea that he had only carried the chit with him and had not referred to it. The single judge of the HC had said, “If we care to think back to our student days, one would invariably recollect preparation of such kind of slips for refreshing the mind immediately before an examination, with no further intent to use it as an unfair or illegitimate means.”
Scrapping the HC judgment, the SC bench said it was immaterial whether or not the students use the chit. If it contained material pertaining to the exam, it amounts to malpractice.
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