RGUHS MBBS Final Year Results Announced

RGUHS Today published the results of final year MBBS (Phase 3 Part 2) Both RS ans RS2 Schemes for the exams conducted in December 2009 - January 2010. Other results will be announced in the following days.

Go here to check the results - www.rguhs.ac.in/HostResult/candidate.php

RGUHS says no to new council

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science (RGUHS) has decried the recommendation for creating a National Council for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) and scrapping the Medical Council of India (MCI) owing to corruption and other deficiencies, made by a national task force which went into the issue.

According to sources in the medical education department, the RGUHS has in a report to the Union government, strongly backed the MCI, arguing that its performance is satisfactory and the task force’s suggestion to set up the NCHRH in its place is “not in tune with the present day concept of decentralisation”.

While RGUHS agreed there were several problems with agencies overseeing medical education in the country, it felt they should be retained in the interest of maintaining high standards. “The establishment of NCHRH will undermine the autonomy of the MCI and other apex bodies which have undoubtedly brought appreciable changes in the health scenario,” the state medical varsity said.

“It is difficult to even imagine how a council with five members only will be able to guide and oversee all the faculties of over 1,000 health professional institutions,” it added. RGUHS also opposed the task force’s recommendation that professionals who have received medical-health related training from NCHRH accredited non- academic institutions, should be permitted to appear for PG programmes at the university level and obtain MD/MS degrees, saying this could dilute the quality of working professionals in the field.

Member of the task force, Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya, refused to comment on the stand taken by RGUHS saying, “our job is only to submit reports”.

A senior officer of the medical education department, however felt that RGUHS vice-chancellor Dr S. Ramananda Shetty should be held accountable for the institute’s defence of the MCI.

“To the best of our knowledge most rural areas of the state still do not have access to good doctors and the MCI is to blame,” he said.

Hi-tech copycat used device inside his shirt

He would wear the same shirt every day to the exam. Not because it was his lucky shirt. He would always pull the collar up. Not because it was the latest fashion. This student, Arun (name changed), had a speaker and wires tucked away in his shirt — to help him copy. He would receive and transmit information through the device. Arun and two other final year MBBS students who resorted to hi-tech copying have been caught.

Arun, a repeater, was writing part-I ophthalmology paper at J N Medical College in Belgaum in December. When the invigilators quizzed him on wearing the same shirt, he would reply: “It’s my lucky shirt.”

“He would never fold his collar and would always pull the collar near his mouth. This kind of unusual behaviour drew the attention of the invigilators,” S Vasantha Kumar, registrar, RGUHS, told TOI. “His shirt does not raise suspicion. But when we frisked him, we found batteries inside the shirt and when we folded collar, we found something hard. We tore the collar, and found wires and a speaker,” Kumar explained. The malpractice committee, which met last week, decided to debar all the students.

The Twelth Annual Convocation of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences will be held during last week of March 2010.

The Twelth Annual Convocation of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences will be held during last week of March 2010.

• All the students declared successful in the examination conducted till September 2009 pertaining to Post graduate degree, Post graduate Diploma & Doctorate degree courses and Gold Medalists of all courses are eligible to receive the degree certificates in person or through post. The degree certificates for the rest of the students of all degrees will be sent through post only.
• Such of those students for whom compulsory Internship / Rotating Housemanship training is not applicable but have passed their examination in September 2009 or earlier are eligible to receive the degree certificates by post.
• Wherever applicable, the Internship / Rotating Housemanship / Industrial Training should have been completed by 31st December 2009.
• Application forms can be obtained from the Heads of the Institutions or from the website www.rguhs.ac.in
• The details of fee for conferring the degree / Diploma are as follows:

Bachelor Degree By Post		P.G. Diploma In Person / By Post		P.G. Degree In Person / By Post		Super Speciality / Ph.D / Fellowships In Person/ By post
Indian Students	Foreign Students	Indian Students	Foreign Students	Indian Students	Foreign Students	Indian Students	Foreign Students
Rs.750/-	Rs.2,500/-	Rs.1,500/-	Rs.3,000/-	Rs.3,000/-	Rs.4,000/-	Rs.5,000/-	-

In case, the degree certificates are to be sent to the personal addresses instead of Institutions concerned, the applicants shall remit an extra fee of Rs.100/- towards postal charges.

• Convocation fee should be credited to the Examination Account of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore – 560041 through Univeristy Challan (Form 2) in any branch of State Bank of Mysore in Karnataka.The Challan forms can be downloaded from the RGUHS website www.rguhs.ac.in. If the Convocation fee has been paid already along with final year examination fee, a certificate to this effect issued by the college shall be enclosed with the application.
• Students should clearly, write their names in Kannada and English as in the marks cards. If any correction in the name is required the present name and correction to be made should be stated clearly substantiated by the documents.

Documents to be enclosed:
a) Certified copies of the marks cards and the Internship Completion
Certificate. (if applicable)
b) Two Passport size photographs, one attested by a Gazetted Officer.
c) Challan / Proof of payment of the prescribed fee.
d) Duly completed applications for issue of the degree at the time of Convocation should reach the Registrar(Evaluation), Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th ‘T’ Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore – 560041 on or before 31-01-2010.

The envelopes should be superscribed “Convocation 2010”.
Incomplete and late applications will be rejected and NO enquiry or correspondence will be entertained in this regard.
The date, time and the venue of the Convocation Ceremony will be published in due course.

Post Graduate Super Speciality Entrance Test – 2010

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore is proposed to conduct the entrance examination on 20.06.2010 for admission to Postgraduate Super Speciality courses for the academic year 2010-2011.

RGUHS PGET (Medical & Dental) 2010 Dates

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore is proposed to conduct the entrance examination on 07.02.2010 for admission to Postgraduate (Medical & Dental) courses for the academic year 2010-2011.

Eight dental students caught while copying

It was exam time and some students were busy chewing when the checking squad entered the hall. The moment the squad left, they spat out. No, they were not angry. They spat out the chits on which they had written the answers.

This incident happened at KGF College of Dental Science on Wednesday. A total of 33 students were writing the dental pharmacology exam (II BDS); human physiology and biochemistry (I BDS) and anatomy exam (I BDS).

Eight students were caught red-handed. In a swift move, the RGUHS (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences) cancelled the exam centre. S Vasantha Kumar, registrar of the university, said: "All the students scheduled to take the exam in this centre have been directed to appear at the Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar, for the next examination."

The RGUHS was tipped off on Monday about mass copying at the dental college. Not taking any chances, the university officials immediately constituted a two-member committee comprising A G Prathab, associate professor (microbiology), M S Ramaiah Medical College, and B J Mahendra, professor and HoD (community medicine), Mandya Institute of Medical Science, on Tuesday.

"We caught eight students red-handed and left the hall. But when we came back, we saw heaps of chits in a corner of the hall. We were shocked. When we examined the chits, we found they were chewed by the students and were still moist. Worse, on the ground floor, we found a lot of study material,” Prathab said.

The chits of the eight students along with their answerscripts, study material and other chits too were confiscated. The members have taken the recording from the CCTV.

Revamp RGUHS, governor tells govt

Miffed by the spate of scams in the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), governor T N Chaturvedi has sought a complete revamp of the functioning of the university.

Chaturvedi, also chancellor of universities, has not only sought a periodical review of the functioning, but also wants the statutes and rules governing the university to be amended to improve functioning.

The state government has now constituted a committee, headed by former RGUHS V-C S Chandrasekhara Shetty, to examine the present structural set-up of the university.

The committee, constituted last week, will suggest amendments to the provisions of the existing Act and recommend inclusion of new provisions. It will also recommend the setting up of a review commission to study the functioning of the university periodically.

The other members of the committee are C M Gurumurthy, former special officer for establishment of RGUHS, Dr K S Nagesh, principal RV dental college, Dr K P Puttaraya, consultant R&D (RGUHS) and S R Kanakaraj, former university registrar.

The panel has been asked to submit its report within three months. In his letter to the government, the chancellor said: Section 71 of the Karnataka State Universities Act 2000 provides for appointment of a review commission into the working of the university.

There is no such provision in respect of other universities, hence it has not been possible to review their functioning.

Since there have been a number of petitions regarding malpractices in some of the universities, it is necessary to have a review commission comprising administrative and academic experts in respect of RGUHS.

Admission tangle ends, students rejoice

In a significant verdict that will have far-reaching implications on the status of deemed universities, the high court has held these universities are bound by University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines with respect to admissions as they have statutory force. With this path-breaking judgment, the 32 students caught in an admission tangle can heave a sigh of relief, what with barely 24 hours left for admissions to close.

"Having acquired the status of a deemed university -- after giving an undertaking and signing an MoU that they would surrender 25% of seats to the state government when obtaining an NOC -- they cannot contend that those conditions on which they were accorded recognition are bad in law and cannot be enforced. They cannot take a U-turn and challenge the very same undertaking as well as the UGC Act's regulations, which had given them deemed status. According to UGC guidelines, the institution should follow the state policy," the special Bench comprising Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice K Bhakthavatsala observed, after quoting and analyzing various apex court judgments, including the Inamdar case, in their order.

Nitte not yet a university

"As per records made available, Nitte is not yet disaffiliated from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science (RGUHS). They are not yet a university. They are only a private professional college. They are governed by Rule 2(l), relating to government seats. All such colleges are governed by consensual agreement on seat sharing. The prayer in their petition is untenable. It is luxurious litigation," the Bench strongly observed while dismissing the petitions filed by both the Universities

The court held that all excess admissions made by the two medical colleges run by Nitte and Yenepoya Universities are bad in law. The court also directed the two institutions to make over the excess admissions of this year above their 75-seat management quota to the KEA quota for the year 2010-11. As per these, 13 seats in Nitte and five in Yenepoya would now go to the state government.

Meanwhile the three-judge Bench of the apex court headed by Justice B N Agarwal will hear the SLPs filed by MCI and Nitte Universities against the August 19 interim order passed by the high court on Wednesday. On September 2, the Bench had stayed the HC's earlier order.

The MCI has alleged that the Karnataka high court's order was nothing but allowing excess admission, which is not permissible as per various orders, passed by the apex court.

On August 19, the high court had directed the KEA to accommodate all students including the 47 allottees who were turned away by the two deemed universities.

Both universities contended that as per the guidelines, the NOC they obtained had no value or bearing and it is the central government which is the competent authority in the matter.

However, the state government had told the court that these two colleges had voluntarily surrendered 25% of their quota while seeking an NOC and have made made admissions in both UG and PG categories.

Apart from this, these two colleges also have been notified in the February 5 notification regarding CET.

It was no classroom

They were waiting for weeks together. On Tuesday, some of the students were in the court right from 11.30 am, anxiously waiting for the judgment. When the dictating order process started, the tension ran high. It was about 5 pm in the evening when the court ultimately passed an order in their favour; and they couldn't hide their glee. They clapped with relief. But the division Bench didn't appreciate it. "Is this a classroom?" asked Justice V Gopala Gowda, and it was followed by pin-drop silence.

HC okays CoD inquiry against KPTCL official

The High Court on Wednesday upheld the government’s decision to conduct a CoD inquiry into the alleged irregularities by K P Champakadhama Swamy, executive director of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) Employees Co-operative society.


Disposing a petition filed by Swamy, Justice Anandabyrareddy handed over the case to CoD. The court directed CoD to submit the report to the court rather than to the government. On October 28, 2006, the registrar of co-operative societies had found Swamy guilty of the irregularities. In 2007, the High Grounds police had refused to register a complaint against Swamy as it was civil in nature. On February 1, 2008, the government directed the CoD to inquire into the matter.

CBI told to submit records The High Court has directed the CBI to submit the list of documents, statement of witnesses and list of evidences against former minister Krishnaiah Setty, who is facing charges of defrauding State Bank of Mysore (SBM) by availing a housing loan.

While hearing a criminal petition filed by Setty, Justice Subhash B Adi directed the CBI to submit relevant records pertaining to the former minister’s involvement in the cheating case.

Meanwhile, the counsel appearing for SBM submitted that the manager of the Gandhinagar branch of the bank had no powers to sanction housing loans above a limit of Rs 4 lakh.

The court adjourned the hearing to Thursday.

RGUHS asked to announce student’s results The High Court has directed the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science (RGUHS) to announce the results of the final year exams of BDS student Karthikeyan Gokul Chandran, son of a senior IPS officer.

The petitioner told the court that on September 1, the governor had directed RGUHS to conduct re-examination for the petitioner, both in practical and viva, and had asked it to submit a report.

But the university had not announced the results after the exams.

HC extends interim order in Maverick case The High Court has extended the interim order directing BBMP not to precipitate the matter regarding construction of quarters for economically weaker sections at Ejipura in Bangalore.

While hearing a petition by Akruthi Nirman, a Mumbai-based company, Justice Venugopala Gowda extended the interim order regarding construction of the quarters.

The government had allotted the tender contract to Maverick Holdings Limited to construct the quarters.

However, Akruthi Nirman had challenged the same.

RGUHS to set up cancer detection cells across State

In an earnest effort to screen cancer patients, the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences will set up Cancer Detection Cells (CDCs) across the State in a phased manner.

Aimed at making facilities available to cancer patients in North Karnataka, RGUHS will begin its community centred programme with two medical colleges.

The CDCs will be the outlet to screen patients for the different types of cancer. For the same, the medical and non medical staff will be trained which will be followed by treatment at the recognised hospitals for cancer treatment. As the first phase of the project, Basaveshwara Medical College in Bagalkot and Navodaya Medical College in Raichur will have a CDC each, said Dr S Ramanand Shetty, Vice Chancellor, RGUHS. He said, “Two meetings have been conducted and two circulars have been sent to various medical colleges regarding CDCs”.

Treatment too
Explaining the functionalities of CDCs, Dr Ramanand said, “These Cells will screen, diagnose, investigate the cancer patients. Following this, the appropriate treatment for cancer patients will be given and the same will be linked to various institutions too”.

The other institutions consists of private and government hospitals, where the expertise of the institutions will be used for diagnosis and treatment of out patients.

“Each year more than eight lakhs new cancer patients are detected and registered. Of these only about 30 percent survive and the reason for the high mortality rate is the late detection of cancer,” Dr Ramanand pointed out. In Karnataka largest number of people are affected by oral cancer, head and neck, followed by breast and cervical cancer.

“North Karnataka has a significant number of cancer patients. Hence there is a need to train non medical staff who will be able to screen patients in the remote areas of the State. These patients will then be diagnosed at the hospitals and and then appropriate treatment will be given at the recognised cancer centers” he added.

MBBS Final Year July 2009 [RS2] Results Announced

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences has announced the results of MBBS Final Year Part 2 [4th Year] RS2 June/July examinations. They are now available on RGUHS website

Click here to check MBBS Final Year Part 2 [4th Year] RS Results

RGUHS election

The election to the Senate of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) from the constituency of Professors and teachers other than professors is scheduled on September 7. According to a RGUHS release, the last date for filing nomination is August 21. The polling will be held in 33 centres across the State. For details, log on to www.rguhs.ac.in, the release added.

MBBS Final Year July 2009 [RS] Results Announced

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences has announced the results of MBBS Final Year Part 2 [4th Year] RS June/July examinations. They are now available on RGUHS website

Click here to check MBBS Final Year Part 2 [4th Year] RS Results

Government hospitals known for bad maintenance

One may be easily mistaken by the serene look of government hospitals spread across the heart of the city. But make no mistake about it -- these government hospitals are known for bad maintenance. Name it. Toilets to corridors to balconies are dirty, unwashed and stinking.

Such a condition exists although the hospitals are adequately staffed, at least on the record. In reality, only ghostly figures exist in attendance registers.

Several employees in government hospitals are simply names on paper who are non-existent. Some simply draw salaries and never come to work.

The wage register at Vani Vilas Hospital for February and March shows 59 names of workers under the housekeeping section. But 21 of them don't exist. Salaries of imaginary employees are then regularly drawn by hospital officials and contractors.

The Unorganized Sector Labour Unit has filed a complaint with Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde, medical education secretary, dean and director of BMCRI, and vice-chancellor of RGUHS.

"Payment to contractors is based on the attendance register certified by the matron, resident medical officer and other hospital officials. Contractors have been misusing BMCRI funds for long," the unorganised sector labour union's president Prem Kumar told The Times of India.

According to the Minimum Wages Act, wages must be paid in presence of authorized hospital representatives and persons who can endorse that the minimum wage has been paid.

No government hospital TOI visited followed this rule. According to the Act, wages must be paid on working days before the 7th of every month. Sources, however, confirmed that wages are paid on second Saturdays or Sundays.

Existing staff and even hard-working employees find it difficult to work properly due to this racket. Some contract workers recruited for sweeping and cleaning are used as ward boys, kitchen attendants and labour ward cleaners. These complicated tasks are supposed to be handled by skilled, permanent hospital staff.

"We had 230 Group D posts sanctioned. Of this, 125 are outsourced and the rest (105 personnel) are permanent. I can't assure if all of them are working here. We've many supervisors in the hospital to look into each department. But we can launch an investigation only based on a complaint,"

Vani Vilas Hospital medical superintendent O S Siddappa told TOI. "You should ask BMCRI authorities are because they're in charge of recruiting contractors," Siddappa added.

"We've found deficiency in the workforce as well as deviation and violation in the contract. Last week, on receiving a bill from a contractor and finding misappropriation, we visited Vani Vilas Hospital and paid only those workers who were actually working at the hospital," said BMCRI dean and director G T Subhash.

"I've written to the medical superintendent to investigate the matter, and if need be, we will cancel the tender and blacklist the contractor," Subhash added.

Bifurcation will reduce load on RGUHS

Minister for Medical Education Ramachandre Gowda, on Monday said that the State cabinet will look into the bifurcation of the Rajiv Gandhi University for Health Sciences (RGUHS) to ease the administrative constraints arising from the large number of colleges under it. The minister also noted that the government was waiting for a response from the University’s Syndicate before proceeding with action against those found guilty of irregularities in evaluation of answer papers.

Responding to a query raised in the Legislative Council, the minister said that, the three-member committee which was constituted after large differences in marks were found in the first valuation and revaluation of the answer papers of the exams held in December 2008 and January 2009, has submitted its report.

The report has been sent to the RGUHS Syndicate to elicit its recommendation; the government is committed to taking action on the issue, he said.

The minister also clarified that the recent change in rules effected by its syndicate pertained to expanding the scope for re-valuation. In the wake of irregularities (as mentioned above) students needed to clear doubts if any and the rule was changed to help students applying for re-valuation.

Changes soon in RGUHS examination process: VC

• Electronic despatch of question papers to be introduced
• Committee set up to monitor erring evaluators
• University needs 5,000 more teachers
  

Vice-Chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) S. Ramananda Shetty has said that RGUHS will now send question papers to colleges by email just minutes before examinations begin and tabulation of results will be done on computers and sent back to the university by email. The university had now introduced this system in postgraduate courses and it was a successful move. “We will soon introduce the system in undergraduate courses and manual entry of marks will stop,” he added.

Dr. Shetty claimed that RGUHS was the only university in the country which had formed a “professional misconduct committee” to monitor erring valuators.

Speaking to The Hindu here on Tuesday, he recalled that in a particular case, one evaluator had given a student 14 marks for an answer, while the question itself was for only 10 marks. The university this year had debarred 17 such evaluators who were not professional. “We also blacklist evaluators and try not to invite them for evaluation work as far as possible,” he added.

Dr. Shetty said the university had also introduced a facility whereby a student could contest his evaluation process, by paying a prescribed fee of Rs. 5,000 per paper. A copy of the answer script would be sent for re-evaluation and if the candidate were to get more marks, the fees paid would be refunded.

Dr. Shetty said that over 650 institutions including those teaching medicine, nursing and alternative therapies would soon come under the purview of university. Of them, 50 per cent were nursing colleges (323). For nursing colleges, recognition from the Indian Nursing Council (INC) and the Karnataka Nursing Council (KNC) was mandatory. “Some colleges do not have INC permission to conduct courses. Students from these colleges will not be eligible for employment in places where recognition is mandatory. The RGUHS has sent such a list to the State Government requesting it not to admit students to these colleges,” he added.

On the relocation of the university to Ramanagara, Dr. Shetty said, “The Government promised to give us 300 acres of land. Now 142 acres has been acquired but farmers have gone to court seeking a stay on the acquisition of the remaining land. Once the land is fully acquired, we will shift to the new campus.”

He said the Central Committee for Indian Medicine wrote to the university last year asking the authorities not to admit students to 28 Ayurveda colleges in the State as they did not have any infrastructure. By then, the admissions were already over. The university wrote to the CCIM stating that the admissions were already over and hence they may be permitted to continue. As many as 1,400 students were admitted to these colleges.

Dr. Shetty said there were 18,000 teaching staff working in colleges, teaching medicine and alternative forms of therapy, but the university needed another 5,000. The number of postgraduate seats would also be increased, he added.

He said there would be no problems as far as fresh admissions to Government Medical Colleges in Hassan, Shimoga, Mandya, Raichur, Bidar and Belgaum were concerned. The Medical Council of India would be meeting in Delhi on June 10 and would send renewal of recognition letters to the Karnataka Government. Seats in these colleges were available for the first round of counselling, he added.

Principal of SDM College of Ayurveda Prasanna N. Rao was present.

Four MBBS candidates tampered with answer booklets

A teacher correcting the answer script of an MBBS student, originally of the 1996-97 batch, was baffled. After failing to clear the exam till now, the candidate finally resorted to malpractice, a glaring one at that.

The student had not only copied every single word from a textbook, but also the punctuation marks. Moreover, investigation revealed a clear difference in handwriting in the internal assessment answer sheet and the university exam answer booklet.

The incident came to light in May when some candidates' answer scripts were sent for revaluation. The exam was conducted in January. Suspicious over the way the answers were worded, the valuator informed his principal, who lodged complaint with Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. The principal also sent documentary evidence for the doubts.

The university found the answer script came from a medical college
in Kolar. RGUHS confiscated the IA answer sheets in all subjects of the entire batch, suspecting there could be more than one such case. "When we went through the answer scripts we could clearly make out they were tampered with. We have found three more students tampered with the answer scripts," RGUHS registrar S Vasantha Kumar said.

The university constituted a fact-finding committee headed by MVJ Medical College dean Dr Rajeshwari. The panel submitted its report in the last week of May, concluding that there is prima facie evidence indicating malpractice. The report was placed before the syndicate in June, where it was resolved that criminal cases will be filed against the candidates.

Workshop/Convention on Global Challenges on Patient Safety

You are cordially invited to attend a workshop / convention on patient safety organized under the WHO initiative on patient safety[Global patient safety challenges I & II] at API Bhavan, 16/F Millers Tank Bed Area, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore – 560 052 on Sunday 26th July 2009.

Experts from WHO will give presentations and there will be a symposium by the local faculty on safety interventions in surgical practice. This program will be useful for all healthcare professionals – doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and administrators and the discussion and deliberation will no doubt improve patient care.

Justice N Santhosh Hegde, Chairman Lokayuktha will inaugurate the function and Dr.M S Sidde Gowda, President, IMA Karnataka state will be guest of honor.

There is no delegate fee for attending and no restriction on the numbers. The Program starts at 10.00 AM and ends by 5.00 PM.

For Further details contact:
Dr.U Vasudeva Rao, Consultant Surgeon, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore
Ph:25024517 Mob:9901919167

3 Member Committee Submits Report on Lapses During Valuation

The three-member committee that was constituted to probe the lapses during valuation at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) submitted the report to the state government recently.

The committee, which is led by director to Medical Education and university’s Syndicate member Dr Aruna submitted the report.

Even while the report was being submitted, the committed came under the eye of a storm.

According to university officials, it doesn’t make much of a sense to appoint a Syndicate member to conduct inquiry on the decision that was taken under syndicate members presence.

“Instead, a retired judge or academician should have been appointed,” an official said.

Why the committee?

The committee was constituted on June 6, following some students’ complaints over alleged goof-ups during valuation of exams conducted during December 2008 and January 2009.

Irregularities

Many irregularities are said to have crept during valuation.

The committee had reported that a dental student was awarded more marks than the maximum marks allotted. In few answer scripts, even though students have written answers, the valuators have mentioned that there is no answer.

In another case, a student got revaluation result in one day, while many students are waiting for their revaluation results for the past three months.

Committee’s recommendations

The Committee has recommended the state government to blacklist those valuators who involved in such malpractices.

Model answer scripts need to be issued.

The committee also recommended reduction in the revaluation fee from Rs 1,000 to Rs 500.