Governor Steps In, Seeks CoD Probe Status

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), which is sitting on the report of the J K Arora committee that probed the internal assessment marks scam of September 2004, has finally decided to place the report before the Syndicate this month.

Taking cognizance of the Express reports on September 25 and 26, the university will table the scam report during the Syndicate meeting on October 24. File notings accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act had shown that though the medical education department asked the RGUHS to place a copy of the Arora Committee report before the Syndicate in May 2006, the university hadn’t acted.

Meanwhile, Governor Rameshwar Thakur, who is the Chancellor of RGUHS, has sought an action taken report from the State government on the inquiry report submitted by J K Arora, former additional chief secretary.

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