Final year MBBS students threaten mass suicide on delay in revising results
Final years MBBS students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, who failed their surgery practical exam, threatened to commit mass suicide alleging delay by the college administration in rectifying the under-marking blunder.
The agitated students led by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a demonstration at the college to protest against the delay and gheraoed the college Dean on Tuesday. Frustrated students raised slogans against the college and surgery department for the blunder due to which over 41 students failed the exam while the whole batch of students was under-marked.
Free Press had exclusively exposed the blunder done by the medical college in the April 9 edition which was admitted by the medical college administration as well. Moreover, the Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University has also asked the college to submit an affidavit for revising the result along with seeking an explanation over the error.
“We are suffering due to the blunder made by the clerk and the examiner in giving the practical marks. They have ruined our careers as the faulty results have prevented us from joining the mandatory internship,” agitating students said.
They alleged that the college administration and faculty members have decided to revise the result already but one of the faculty members is being the hindrance in the same as he is not accepting the fault even when the Dean did.
“College authorities have forced us to stage demonstration and we are under the pressure of society which didn’t leave any option for us but to commit suicide,” the students said.
They have also submitted a memorandum to the Dean to press their demands. However, Dean refused to accept the memorandum mentioning mass suicide and asked the students to remove the part from the memorandum.
Examiner undermarked the students, results of whole batch to be revised
According to college staff, the goof-up was done by one of the examiners who had evaluated the students from total 10 marks in place of 60 marks. Moreover, the responsible clerk who uploaded the marks failed to multiply the given marks with the whole of six and the examiners too failed to catch the blunder before submitting the marks to the university.
“The goof-up not only affected the 46 students who failed in the practical exam but also impacted the result and merit of all the students of the batch,” a senior faculty member said.