CPMT 2007 results likely today

Lucknow, June 20 (UNI) After cancelling the Combined Pre Medical Test (CPMT) 2007 results declared on June 14, Uttar Pradesh government is set to announce fresh results today.

A senior government official here today said efforts were on to announce the new results this evening.'' But as we are taking all precautionary measures to prevent any loopholes, it can be delayed till tomorrow'', the official further added.

Earlier a seven-member team constituted to probe into alleged irregularities in the declared results found that approximately 75 per cent of them were faulty.

The team will hand over its report to the state government by this evening.

The team constituted by the state government on Friday to detect the irregularities reflected in the CPMT results announced on Thursday, returned to the state capital yesterday from Jaunpur where they examined papers and other related documents at the Vir Bahadur Singh Poorvanchal University, who was the organiser of the CPMT 2007 exams.

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

More than 80,000 students had appeared in the examinations for admission to state medical colleges, of which over 15,000 qualified for counselling. The medical aspirants had demanded re-checking of all the answersheets of the premier medical test of the state.

Taking prompt note of the student unrest, the UP government had stayed the counselling of successful candidates, to be held on July 5,6 and 7 and had ordered a probe into the entire matter by the committee.

However, Veer Bahadur Singh Poorvanchal University Vice-Chancellor and CPMT 2007 chairman K P Singh said the answer sheets have been re-evaluated and results would be declared soon after the directions of the state government.

Prof Singh said, ''being a chairperson of the CPMT exam, I take the moral responsibility of the irregularities. But, I want to note that the mistake was not intentional...it was just a technical snag.'' ''As the results were declared too early, manual cheking could not be done,'' the VC added.

''If the students had not gone on rampage, the irregularities in the CPMT results would have remained unknown, he added.

The CPMT results were also cancelled 16 years ago. Ironically, then to it was conducted by the Jaunpur Vir Bahadur Singh Poorvanchal University.

In 1991, the examination, conducted under the charge of the then university's Prof Dr R N Gupta, was cancelled by the state government after question paper leak.

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