BANGALORE: In an attempt to curb malpractice and irregularities like the ones detected during the postgraduate entrance test (PGET-2011), the state government has decided to hold the 2012 PGET examination only in Bangalore instead of the current system of having it in eight centres.“It has also been decided that the entire examination process — starting from issuing the question paper to the packing of OMR sheets — will be under CCTV surveillance. Not only students, even examiners and invigilators will be barred from using mobile phones and other electronic gadgets inside the examination centre, Medical Education Minister S A Ramadas said while addressing the media on Monday.Asked how the centralised system of holding the examination will help to curb the malpractices, Ramadas said, “The entire process of examination can be monitored at multiple levels and it easy to keep a check on the staff also, if it is held in one place. Moreover, some staff as well as students are powerful in their respective areas. Change of place could act as a deterrence.”According to the minister, the names of the students who are found to be involved in the malpractice will be removed from the medical registry.Besides, action would be initiated against the non-teaching staff members of the Vijaynagar Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Bellary, for their alleged involvement in perpetrating malpractice during the PGET-2011 examination. Meanwhile, the Bellary-based VIMS has suspended three doctors - Dr D K Bharati, Dr Firdous Sultana and Dhananjaya - for their alleged involvement in the malpractice of 2011 PGET examination.The 2011 PGET examination, it may be recalled here, had assumed notoriety, with a student writing the examination by sitting in a car.“There was telephonic conversation between the staff and the students in the examination hall. This shows that the teaching and non-teaching staff were involved in the irregularities,” the medical education minister explained.New postingsDr A R Aruna, hitherto director of Medical Education, has been posted as Director of Health and Family Welfare services with immediate effect. Dr G S Venkatesh, joint director, Directorate of Medical Education, has been made Director In-charge of the department, Ramadas announced.Ramadas professes innocenceAsserting that he was innocent in the alleged land-related scam as reported in a section of media, Medical Education Minister Ramadas said he was not at all bothered as there was no truth in the charges, which has been surfacing in the media since the year 1994. “I will face the enquiry if the Lokayukta takes up the charge. I will take appropriate action if there is even a prima facie case against me,” the medical education minister added. Ramadas is alleged to have got agricultural land allotted as sites , as early as year 1991, without getting the character of the land converted from arable to commercial.
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