CPMT probe completes, team might submit report today

Jaunpur, June 19 (UNI) A seven member team constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government to detect the irregularities in the Combined Pre Medical Test (CPMT) 2007 results has returned to the state capital and is likely to submit its report today.

The team comprising Special Secretary, Medical Education, S K Raghuvanshi, Medical Education Director General Dr Kamal Sahni, Technical Director of NIC S F A Naqwi, Registrar of UP Technical University, Dr U S Tomar and three others from Delhi, had visited Jaunpur's Vir Bahadur Singh and are through with the probe.

One of the team members had earlier asserted that the completion of the probe might take some more time.

The report will reveal whether the irregularities were technical or intentional.

The irregularities reflected in the CPMT results, declared on June 14, had created panic among the medical aspirants. Furious mobs had taken to streets, while one student committed suicide.

More than 80,000 students had appeared in the examinations for admission in the state medical colleges, of which about 15,000 were called for counselling. The medical aspirants had demanded the rechecking of the answer-sheets.

Taking prompt note of the student unrest, the UP government had stayed the counselling of successful candidates and ordered a probe into the matter by the committee.

The issue of re-evaluation of CPMT answer-sheets has, however, elicited a mixed response. Students, who have passed are in a tizzy, while, the other medical aspirants, who could not pass are a happy lot.

Meanwhile, confessing the mistake, Prof K P Singh Voice-Chancellor Poorvanchal University had said ''it is a mistake and I take the moral responsibilty of it. The mistake was not done intentionally, but happened due to technical error.'' ''The results were declared in a hussle due to shortage of time.

It would have been curbed, if we had have it manually,'' he added.

The UP government will take the action once the report is submitted.

UNI