DESAM bans Pre-Medical Test counselling
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 01, 2012: Taking strong exception to the announcement by the Health Commissioner and the Health Director that the genuine merit list for the MBBS/BDS entrance examination would be the one declared on June 23, the Desam has flayed the decision as impracticable.

Desam has also banned counselling for the MBBS/BDS courses which are scheduled to begin from July 7 until a solution is brought to the issue.

Speaking to media persons this afternoon, Desam president Islauddin asserted that the merit list declared on June 23 which the Health Commissioner proclaimed as genuine and binding was a manipulated one.

Blaming M/S Axon Automation Private Limited for the goof-up and the resulting controversy, the student body demanded resignation of the Health Minister, Health Commissioner and the Health Director.

The June 23 merit list which the Health Commissioner reportedly declared as the final list is full of errors.

The merit lists declared on June 11 and June 23 are quite incompatible.

The rank 2 holder bearing roll no 3148 gets 88 marks in Physics as per the merit list published on June 11. The mark was reduced to 84 in the second merit list before it was increased to 92 in the merit list published on June 23. This is not an isolated case.

There are many such cases where the marks secured by candidates vary from one merit list to another, Islauddin said.

Even if the merit lists were corrected/amended because certain questions of Physics paper were wrong, such variation in total marks is not warranted.

It only indicates undue interference by some influential people.

When the merit list was first published on June 11, it was said that complaints can be lodged till June 18 before re-checking answer sheets at the Medical Directorate at 2 pm of June 25. The notice mentioned that no re-evaluation would be allowed.

In the meantime, another notification was issued saying that re-checking was done on June 18.Subsequently, merit list was published not once but twice.

Now errors have been detected in the question paper of Biology.

Question nos 90 and 98 of serial C have dual answers meaning both answer keys A and B are correct.

As such, all the candidates who chose either A or B should be given marks.

Asserting that the merit list which the Health Commissioner declared as final and binding is unacceptable, Desam maintained that the goof-up was human error, not programming error.

The student body also sought immediate intervention of the Chief Minister and the Governor into the issue.

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