No
date announced for when exam will be reconducted.
Four days after the CBI arrested 16
persons involved in leaking the MD/MS entrance exam paper and large scale
cheating, the PGI authorities on Wednesday decided to cancel the entrance
examination.
In the absence of the director of
the institute, Dr Y K Chawla, sources said the decision was taken in a meeting
attended by senior functionaries of the institute including dean Dr Amod Gupta,
officiating director Dr Vinay Sakhuja besides deputy director (administration)
Chetan P S Rao and others.
Sources said that the decision has
been taken keeping in mind the fact that since it is not certain as to how many
candidates were beneficiaries of the paper leakage, it would be in the interest
of all the genuine candidates, to cancel the exam. However, it has not been
decided as yet as to when the exam will be reconducted.
The decision will affect over 7,200
candidates who appeared for the 78 post graduation seats in various departments
of PGI at 11 different exam centres in the city.
Despite repeated attempts, Manju
Wadwalkar, PGIMER spokesperson, could not be contacted for comments.
On November 10, a CBI team arrested
the gang members — including seven girls who were on mostly matriculates and
class XII passouts — who were utilising hi-tech gadgets including bluetooth
devices, smart phones and buttonhole cameras to transmit questions to other
gang members located at nearby hotels.
Serious
lapses
The scam has blown the lid off
serious lapses on part of PGI authorities in the way the exam is conducted,
especially after a similar incident had taken place in 2010 wherein it was
revealed that two doctors had gained admission in the prestigious institute
after impersonators had appeared on their behalf and had cleared the entrance
exam conducted by the PGI.
The same serious questions have been
raised once again on the way the exam is being conducted with PGI authorities
admitting that they do not have any mechanism to check if the documents
produced at the time of filling in the forms are original.
A fact well known to the gang
members who produced faked MBBS degrees to PGIMER in order to appear in the
entrance exam with an aim of leaking it out.
So far, 16 persons have been
arrested in this case including Dr Ghanshyam Reddy, the “expert” who was
arrested from Patna and was to answer the questions in the entrance exam.
All the accused are currently under
police remand. Hi-tech set up Pushpagir Gurivi Reddy, who was arrested by the
CBI from a hotel in Chandigarh on Saturday, turned out to be the kingpin of the
racket, which had spread to various cities, including Patna and Hyderabad.
Reddy (31) would provide sophisticated equipment like pen-scanners,
micro-earphones with blue tooth facility and wireless ear plugs to the students,
who had hidden them in convenient places like undergarments, collars and hair
bands. Special clothes were ordered for the women appearing in the entrance
test and the devices were fixed when the garments were being stitched.
The modus operandi was that soon
after the question paper was given to the student, the ‘moles’ would scan the
entire paper using the specially designed pen, which had the facility to
transmit the same to Reddy and his associates sitting in a hotel in Chandigarh
through e-mail. They in turn would send the scanned paper to ‘experts’ in
Hyderabad and Patna. “Within minutes, the experts would find out the answers
and send them back to the control room of Reddy and his associates in
Chandigarh. And he, in turn, would read them out to the girls in the
examination centre who would hear them through micro ear phones,” sources said.
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