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Latest News |
| 30th
Sep 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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Private med college admissions rigged
Mumbai: Thousands of candidates who made it to private
medical and dental colleges this year have given the government-conducted
entrance exam a go-by. Have the expensive private colleges
become more attractive than the prestigious government
ones Or have admissions been rigged What else could explain
the reason behind a total of 1,975 successful medical
aspirants skipping the state CET For the record, the syllabi
for both the tests are the same.
In the private space, there are 11 medical colleges, with
a total student intake of 1,120 and 21 dental colleges
with 1,680 seats. It is surprising that over 70% students
have not taken the government test. Anyone with a bit of
seriousness and commonsense would take the Maharashtra
CET, said Rajesh Jain of the Parents Association of Medical
Students.
Interestingly, such a trend has been observed for the first
time;last year, almost all the students who got into the
private colleges had also taken the government exam, although
there were some students whose performance in the two
CETs was drastically different. We have noticed students
being selected from the private CET are below average. There
is a vast difference in many candidates Class X, Class
XII and CET scores. A student who has scored say 55% in
Class XII, has scored 90% in the private medical entrance
exam. There is something that has gone terribly wrong,
said Arvind V Bhore, dean of Sinhgad Technical Education
Societys (STES) Kashibai Navale Medical College, a private
college at Narhe, Pune.
Some students, who did not wish to be named, confessed that
they had merely taken the exam conducted by the AMUPMDC
because some private agents had assured them a seat even
before the exam. However, Kamal Kishore Kadam, AMUPMDC chairman, said
that the cream of the meritorious students would naturally
join the government colleges.
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