DMAT: Six students get relief

Bhopal, Feb 14 (UNI) A state-level admission process monitoring committee, which heard cases linked to alleged irregularities in the Dental and Medical Entrance Test (DMAT) to Madhya Pradesh's private colleges, has directed that admission be provided to six students whose complaints were found to be genuine.

''Four of them were medical students and the rest dental.

The committee received 27 complaints, eight of which were rejected and 19 deliberated on,'' committee Chairman Justice Chandresh Bhushan told UNI.

Seventeen other cases related to admission under the non-resident Indian quota. Ten admissions were cancelled -- eight to Ujjain's R D Gardi Medical College and the rest to Indore's Modern Dental College.

Yesterday's committee meeting was also attended by members Bharat Chhaparwal and Harihar Trivedi.

DMAT was conducted on August 13, 2006 here and in other places for more than 1,000 seats in eight dental and three medica1 colleges. The test became embroiled in disputes as there were complaints of question paper leak and other irregularities.

The committee decided to cancel the DMAT but the organisers secured a stay from the High Court. The state government has challenged that stay in the Supreme Court.

UNI