Grievance cell meets med students, assures exam will remain clean
Times of India | 7 February 2025
KOLKATA: On Thursday, a packed academic building at Burdwan Medical College (BMC) said ‘yes’ to free and fair examinations during a meeting with representatives of State Level Grievance Redress Committee (SLGRC). The committee members rushed to the medical college to reassure the students and faculty members that no unfair means would be allowed in the examination, following reports of a few students demanding permission to cheat.
TOI reported on Thursday about a faculty member’s desperate message to a senior official at Swasthya Bhawan. The message highlighted how a few students were openly demanding to be allowed to cheat in the examination. The professor, responsible for academic and student affairs, expressed his anguish, questioning how these students would become good doctors if they did not want to study. TOI also reported on a junior doctor accused of promoting a culture of threats and unfair means during examinations. This doctor was allegedly threatening some faculty members to allow some students to carry mobiles to the examination hall when the MBBS final year students took their exams from March 3.
The SLGRC team, with head-and-neck onco-surgeon Sourav Datta, infectious diseases association professor Yogiraj Ray, and Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, the programme coordinator for the Feb 24 doctors’ convention with CM Mamata Banerjee, rushed to BMC. They intervened to reassure the students and faculty members that they would not allow unfair examination practices to return to the campus.
“We expressed our concern about a few students trying to bring back unfair means in examinations. The SLGRC assured us that they would not allow this to happen,” said Md Rizwan Zaman, a third-year PGT.
A third-year MBBS student described how some students were given a free hand to cheat during previous examinations and how a junior doctor, who was suspended by the health dept, would pressure faculty members to give honours marks to those students. “The seven students rusticated from the hostel are now trying to manipulate a few hostellers to demand their reinstatement with the assurance that they will assist them in cheating in the examination,” said the third-year student. Some rusticated students were also present at the meeting, where SLGRC members issued a warning that anyone resorting to unfair means would face jail term.
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