Bengaluru: The health department seems to get unhealthy by the day. The government Unani Medical College, Bengaluru is the focus of an investigation into irregularities commited in admission and examination of students.
The director of Ayush has dashed of a letter to the state government about illegal admissions and sought action against erring officials!
Disclosing details of the illegal admission of non-Karnataka students to the course of Bachelor of Unani and Modern Medicines with Surgery (BUMS), and allowing students to appear for examinations with fake documents, Vijayakumar Gogi, additional principal chief conservator of forests (APCCF) and director of Ayush wrote to the principal secretary to the government, health and family welfare, in September seeking action against both former and serving principals and administrative officials of the Government Unani College, Bengaluru.
According to the letter quoted by a Bangalore daily, “the Ayush directorate admitted students to first year of BUMS 2013-14 through walk-in interview. Even though three students had left the course, the college authorities did not bring it to the notice of the directorate and instead admitted non-Karnataka students by creating forged documents”.
“Keeping the directorate in the dark about vacancies and forging department documents to admit non-Karnataka students is a serious offence. Further, by flouting the rules and admitting non-Karnataka students without any parameters, the officials have cheated hundreds of Karnataka students who have been waiting since long to get admission to these courses. Prima facie, it appears to be the handiwork of well established cheating racketeers for personal gains,” the letter further said.
The examination process too appears to have been vitiated by allowing ineligible students to write exams by producing fake documents. “Chairpersons of various departments had not only barred 12 students from appearing for exams owing to shortage of attendance but also refused to give marks in the practical examination. However, these officials ensured creation of forged documents in nexus with the administrative staff and misguided the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) by submitting the same fake documents and allowing those students to appear for final exams. Interestingly, all these students hailed from other states,” the director wrote in his letter.
