Thumb imprints of all first year medicos to be collected by the medical colleges in TN
Posted on: 15/Oct/2019 9:36:07 AM
Clearing NEET with high marks has become mandatory for getting admission into MBBS in the medical colleges in TN is known. The students have left with no other option other than performing well in this NEET. There are some students who try to get MBBS first year seat by using illegal ways also.
It is important to mention here that in this 2019 5 students from TN were arrested for cheating the system and atleast 4 of the 5 arrested was discharged from erstwhile Ponniah Ramajayam Medical College. It must be noted that 36 students got admission in this above said medical college without clearing NEET and MCI had discharged these 36 students.
Shocking piece of information collected is some students have appointed more than one scribe to write the entrance test from different centres and used their mark sheets with highest score for admissions.
The news that has come out now is the directorate of medical education or DME has asked all government medical colleges as well as self financing medical colleges to collect 3 samples of thumb imprints of the first year MBBS students. Detailed forensic analysis would be done based on these thumb prints.
On Monday, an email was sent by DME to all the deans of the medical colleges. It was mentioned in that email that all the first year students must give their thumb impressions before anatomy, physiology, biochemistry professors at the dean’s office then the students, professors and deans must put their signatures on the forms. Finally, inside the next 5 working days, 2 copies of the forms would be sent in sealed envelopes to the directorate.
As per Dr. Narayanababu, DME, it is clear that students who fail to give their thumb prints or go on leave would not be allowed to attend the classes. He spoke about how the state had requested for the physical thumbprints given by the students in the dean’s offices to be examined by forensic experts. He concluded that this would be one way of ascertaining if the students who have joined the medical colleges have impersonated their entrance test.
