Medical students for scrapping of new valuation system

Medical students for scrapping of new valuation system

THE academic council of the Maharashtra University of Medical Sciences (MUHS) has convened a meeting on October 29 to discuss the demand of medical students to withdraw the new evaluation policy. According to students, out of 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate medical students as many as 11,955 have failed to clear the examination due to recent change in rules of giving average marks. 

This has put the students to a great disadvantage, claimed striking students.

Medical students from undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the state are up in amis against the new evaluation policy of the MUHS since October 17. and are holding various forms of protests including relay hunger strikes outside the MUHS campus.

In Nagpur. protests are going on at IGGMCH and student leaders have given a call to aggrieved students to mobilise more support. According to MUHS officials, the academic council will take a proper decision in the interest of students.

According to newly-introduced centralised assessment process (CAP) by MUHS. each answer sheet is to be checked by two teachers. In case of a difference in the scores given by the two. the average will be considered as the final score. The double evaluation system, according to the university, will enhance quality and bring about transparency in the examination system.

However, the students wanted the earlier system of aggregate marks restored. They questioned the rationale in introducing this average marks system stating that it is unfair and for the difference of opinion between two valuers, a student's career is ruined.

The students have annexed legal opinion obtained by them which favors of scrapping of the new system and states that the issue was never agitated before High Court. A meeting between MUHS Vice-Chancellor and agitating medical college students had failed to make any headway.