Give degrees to failed SC-STs: Med varsity
Gaurav Saigal, Hindustan Times
Lucknow, December 06, 2011
The Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow has
urged the Medical Council of India that graduation degrees be granted
to SC and ST medical students, who have repeatedly failed to clear the
final exams. A few of them have been trying since 1996.
Earlier, about 50
reserved category students blamed the university's teachers, alleging
that they were deliberately giving SC-ST students poor marks.
The move comes only a few months before the assembly polls in Uttar
Pradesh where scheduled castes and scheduled tribes constitute 18% of
the electorate.
On Monday, a letter from the vice-chancellor of the university —
India's first residential medical university, established in 1905 —
Prof DK Gupta, to the MCI read: "As students have failed consecutively
on several attempts, they be allowed to have a degree."
He said a separate passing percentage should be fixed for students
belonging to the reserved category, as they get selected with lower
qualifying marks through medical entrance.
Although state medical education minister Lalji Verma said, "I will
comment only after going through the documents", Congress spokesperson
Ram Kumar Bhargava said repeated failure of a section of students
should be probed.
But Samajwadi Party leader Ambika Chaudhary said, "Once they (students
from underprivileged sections) get an opportunity, they must be up to
the mark to become doctors."
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