Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University -MBBS results withdrawn

Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University

From-http://www.deccanchronicle.com

The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has run into controversy again with the varsity publishing the first year MBBS results against the MCI norms on Sunday evening and withdrawing it the following day after protests by students.

“The results were published on the university website on Sunday evening and the status remained dismal with 30 per cent students again failing their exams as the university did not follow the MCI evaluation pattern. On Monday morning, the results were withdrawn and the university authorities have said that the new results will be announced shortly,” said a first-year MBBS student on condition of anonymity.

After several demonstrations and lawsuits and at the insistence of the chief minister and pressure from the court, the university revoked the new evaluation norms for the first-year MBBS students and said it would publish the results as per MCI norms.

However, when the results were put up on the university’s website on Sunday evening, the students were shocked as the status of a majority of them remained the same.

The MCI norms required students to score an aggregate of 50 per cent in theory (paper-I, paper-II and viva), the university graded students as passed only if they had an aggregate of 50 per cent in paper-I and paper-II individually.

“If they mark us as per the MCI norms there would be only 10 pent of failure, but now the status remains at 30 per cent,” the students said. The irked students threatened to approach the court as the university had reportedly violated the orders.

Before things got out of hand, the university withdrew the results. “All the changes brought about by vice-chancellor Mayilvahanan Natrajan has put the students through a lot of hardship. He should resign and the MCI guidelines must be implemented for the students to fare well,” said Dr Ravindranath, general secretary of DASE. Efforts to contact Natrajan proved futile.