Med univ appeals against HC order to revalue answer scripts
Direction Overlooks MCI Rules, Says Plea
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.02 2019
Stumped by court order directing the Villupuram Medical College dean to re-evaluate the answer script of a first year student who failed twice, Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has challenged the order saying its academic authority cannot be undermined.
The state university, which urged the division bench to stay the single judge order, has made a government medical college dean one of the respondents in the case. The appeal by registrar Parameswari Srijayanth said the judge had overlooked regulations of the university and Medical Council of India that don’t provide scope for revaluation. The university conducts examinations, evaluates and awards degrees to 22 state-run medical colleges and all other self-financing medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.
Of the three first year papers, the student, Priyanka Venkatesh, passed in one subject and failed two others. She appeared for the supplementary exam in November but failed to clear that too. In December, the 19-year-old moved the court seeking directions to re-evaluate her anatomy and biochemistry papers. In her petition Venkatesh said that incorrect evaluation led to her failure in the subjects.
She listed out the answers she had written for 11 questions in bio-chemistry and six questions in anatomy along with the prescribed answers from the text book.
Justice T Raja directed the Villupuram Medical College Hospital dean to appoint an expert faculty member in the subjects to evaluate the answers and submit a report to the court by February 5.
On Friday, however, the university challenged the order stating it would dilute the regulations of the university and go against several court judgments. The university said it had a double evaluation system to check human errors. Answer scripts of students who fail the first evaluation will have the benefit of second evaluation. After the evaluation, the first mark or average, whichever is higher, will be taken as the final score. “The university has not issued any text books and the contention that the answers were based on the text book we issued is false,” the appeal said.
Direction Overlooks MCI Rules, Says Plea
Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.02 2019
Stumped by court order directing the Villupuram Medical College dean to re-evaluate the answer script of a first year student who failed twice, Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has challenged the order saying its academic authority cannot be undermined.
The state university, which urged the division bench to stay the single judge order, has made a government medical college dean one of the respondents in the case. The appeal by registrar Parameswari Srijayanth said the judge had overlooked regulations of the university and Medical Council of India that don’t provide scope for revaluation. The university conducts examinations, evaluates and awards degrees to 22 state-run medical colleges and all other self-financing medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.
Of the three first year papers, the student, Priyanka Venkatesh, passed in one subject and failed two others. She appeared for the supplementary exam in November but failed to clear that too. In December, the 19-year-old moved the court seeking directions to re-evaluate her anatomy and biochemistry papers. In her petition Venkatesh said that incorrect evaluation led to her failure in the subjects.
She listed out the answers she had written for 11 questions in bio-chemistry and six questions in anatomy along with the prescribed answers from the text book.
Justice T Raja directed the Villupuram Medical College Hospital dean to appoint an expert faculty member in the subjects to evaluate the answers and submit a report to the court by February 5.
On Friday, however, the university challenged the order stating it would dilute the regulations of the university and go against several court judgments. The university said it had a double evaluation system to check human errors. Answer scripts of students who fail the first evaluation will have the benefit of second evaluation. After the evaluation, the first mark or average, whichever is higher, will be taken as the final score. “The university has not issued any text books and the contention that the answers were based on the text book we issued is false,” the appeal said.
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