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ndia’s Ministry of Health and Medical education isn’t
Family Welfare of India has finally
referred the scam of manipu-
lating of admissions in MBBS in
I private unaided medical colleges free from corruption
of UP held in 2015. Sting operation
conducted by Delhi-based journalist
Surender Singh Hooda coupled with CBI is set to probe a scam involving admissions in MBBS in
clinching evidence of manipulation Uttar Pradesh Combined Medical Entrance Test 2015 for private
has virtually forced the Ministry to go
for CBI probe in the issue. unaided medical colleges allegedly in connivance with officers
For admissions in MBBS in pri- of Medical Council of India, reports pawan kumar bansal
vate unaided colleges of UP for 2015-
16, combined medical entrance was
conducted by Uttar Pradesh Unaided unaided medical colleges of the state UP unaided Medical Colleges Welfare
Medical Colleges Welfare Association under entrance exam UPCMET-2015. Association that had conducted the
(UPUMCWA), which is a consortium of Hooda has pleaded that since this is entrance exam for admissions in MBBS.
unaided non-minority medical colleges the biggest ever exposed MBBS admis- Hooda told Tehelka that in last year
in the state. The exam conducted by this sion scam of the country hence it, needs he sent another representation to
body was fraudulently manipulated to proper attention of the Government of Board of Governors of MCI with more
favour undeserving students and the India and needs immediate CBI investi- proofs adding that after analysing it,
regulating authority Medical Council of gation. Hooda told that during sting op- the MCI board had referred it to Preeti
India has failed to regulate the fairness eration of admissions procedure at KD Sudan, Secretary, government of India ,
of said examination. Medical College in Mathura, he got the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Now the Central government has evidence of discrepancies in the pro- stating the issue requires in-depth in-
decided to refer the issue to CBI to in- cess of admissions test for 2015-2016. vestigation by multiple agencies, which
vestigate the deliberate negligence Armed with the admission proce- is out of the purview of the Council,
and illegal gratification of MCI officials. dure details, Hooda had even filed a therefore, it is recommended that this
Confirming this, Amit Biswas, Under petition in Delhi High Court seeking matter may be handed over to appro-
Secretary, Ministry of Health and Fam- CBI probe into the alleged manipula- priate investigation agency.
ily Welfare told Tehelka that complain- tions and corruption in functioning of Even after repeated representations
ant in the case, a Delhi-based journal-
ist Surender Singh Hooda, has been • Scam scan Journalist Surender Singh Hooda (right) unearthed the medical admission scam
informed about the decision of hand-
ing over the case to CBI. Surender Sin-
gh Hooda who had conducted a sting
operation and has been pursuing the
scam in various forms including courts
told Tehelka that he was hopeful that
country’s premier investigative agency
CBI will catch the culprits.
Surender Singh Hooda had repre-
sented to Health and Family Welfare
Ministry on January 10, 2019, along with
merit list of students admissions list of
KD Medical College, Mathura, and other
11 medical colleges alleging discrepancy
in names and merit number of candi-
dates admitted the four medical colleg-
es in two lists, submitted by the college
and UPCMET, in support of his allega-
tions. He had further alleged that this
is only tip of iceberg and, there is dis-
crepancy in names and merit number
of candidates admitted in all the private

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