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Latest News |
| 27th
July 2010 / Times of India / Hyderabad Edition |
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‘Young’ Eamcet topper misses selection bus
by just 5 days
But All Is Not Lost As The MBBS Aspirant Can Still
Make It With Court’s Nod
Hyderabad: One of the top rank holders of Eamcet-2010
was denied admission in medical counselling held at Jawaharlal
Nehru Technological University - Hyderabad (JNTU-H), here
on Sunday as she was found five days younger than the
specified cut-off age. The student, Ch Revathi, who secured
40th rank in medical stream in Eamcet-2010 was not given
an MBBS seat since her date of birth was recorded as January
6, 1994 in SSC marks memo.
According to the state government and Medical Council
of India (MCI) rules, students who are born after January
1, 1994 cannot take admission in medical colleges this
year.
This is the second case in the past two years where one
of the Eamcet toppers had to be sent back from the counselling
venue for being underaged. In 2009 medical counselling,
ninth rank holder of Eamcet, P Sairam was denied admission
for similar reasons following which he moved court. He
was later allowed to join MBBS as the AP High Court ruled
in his favour.
However, Revathi claimed before officials of NTR University
of Health Sciences that her date of birth was incorrectly
printed in her SSC booklet as the birth certificate carried
the same mistake. Revathi claimed that her real date of
birth was December 31, 1993. Instead, the mandal revenue
officer mistakenly recorded a wrong date, January 1, 1994
in her birth certificate. “Since her date of birth
was wrongly noted in the SSC marks memo, she secured a
correction order from Board of Government Examination
which conducts SSC stating that her date of birth is December
31, 1993,” said one of her Intermediate teachers.
The teacher mentioned that she had procured her correct
date of birth from the mandal office after much trouble
and had got the correction done.
Officials of NTR University of Health Sciences were, however,
not sure whether she could be given an admission in state
medical college this year before verifying whether her
claim holds ground. “The student has got January
6, 1994 as her date of birth, SSC, Intermediate and even
Eamcet records. And she got the correction done after
the ranks were released. The university can admit students
only on the basis of the records available and hence,
she was denied an admission,” said a senior official
from NTR university. Meanwhile, the decision of the board
of Government Examinations to correct the date of birth
is now under scanner, officials said.
When contacted, officials of Medical Council of AP said
that if the student is not able to prove the genuineness
of the corrections she made, she might have to get a government
order which permits her to take admission.
“After obtaining the GO, the student should fight
it out in court to take admission. Since in the previous
year in Sairam’s case, the state high court ruled
that the state government has the right to get the age
limit altered in specific cases, Revathi might get a chance
to take admission,” an official said.
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