Nuisance of forged documents in MBBS admission, authorities to verify documents

Mandi: Taking cognizance of the incidences where students produced forged documents to seek MBBS admission in Atal Medical Research University (AMRU), medical aspirants are demanding a proper and stringent checking system to determine the authenticity of the documents produced by students. 

According to AMRU Registrar Amar Negi, the university administration is considering to take strict measures to strengthen the screening system so that they can identify instances of fraud during the counselling process before allocating seats to candidates.

Former Health Minister and Senior Congress leader Kaul Singh Thakur told The Tribune, “it is very unfortunate that students were using such illegal tactics to secure admission in MBBS courses in medical colleges. It is also a big failure on the part of the university concerned and college authorities, which could not detect such cases at the initial stage. There is an urgent need to strengthen the checking system."

According to the daily, two students successfully secured seats in IGMC Shimla and the medical college in Chamba due to the failure to spot falsified documents presented by students during counselling.

In these two instances, the fake documents presented by the two accused students at the time of admission went undetected by the AMRU authorities in Mandi and the medical college authorities in Shimla and Chamba. As a result, both students were enrolled in MBBS first-year courses.

A similar incident occurred in Tanda Medical College in the Kangra district last year, where a student provided fake documents to gain admission to an MBBS programme. The girl reportedly produced a fake admission letter in order to impress her father. The girl had created a forged offer letter that she had cleared NEET and was eligible for admission to Tanda Medical College. The medical university found out that the registration number she had used on the offer letter was of another student. After a couple of such incidences being recorded, public and medical aspirants have demanded strict rules to detect forged document during the admission process.