Violation of Regulations: HC directs RGUHS to conduct additional evaluations for 109 MBBS students

Bengaluru: Offering relief to around 109 MBBS students, the Karnataka High Court has recently directed the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) for conducting additional evaluations of the papers in which the students failed.

Such direction for conducting additional two evaluations has come from the HC bench after taking note of the fact that the University had conducted only two evaluations, instead of four evaluations, which is required as per the MCI regulations of 1997, adds TOI.

Upholding the Regulations, the HC bench comprising of Justice Suraj Govindaraj offered relief to the medicos and also referred to the Regulation 13 of the erstwhile Medical Council of India Graduate Medical Education Regulation, 1997. As per the rules, in case there is a difference of 15% marks between the evaluators, a 5th evaluator needs to conduct the deviation evaluation as well.

Such observations came from the High Court bench while it was dealing with the petitions filed by MBBS students who got admitted to the course before 2018-2019. 

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Approaching the High Court bench, the medicos alleged that the University had conducted only two evaluations when as per the MCI regulations 1997, four evaluations were required to be carried out.

Apart from the additional evaluations, the medicos had also prayed to declare their results prior to the conduct of the supplementary exam for MBBS Theory RS3 examinations, which is scheduled to begin from May 5, 2022.

As per the latest media report by the Times of India, the HC bench upheld the MCI regulations and opined that the same relief should be extended to the petitioner students as well.

However, the allegations against RGUHS not adhering to the guidelines is not entirely new. Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that taking note of the instances of violation of University guidelines while conducting exams, the Karnataka HC had recently directed the RGUHS to "wake up" and initiate action against "delinquent examiners".