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Agartala, Jul 26, 2011 : The controversy over admission to first year MBBS course in Tripura Medical College (TMC) has taken a new turn with leader of the opposition Ratanlal Nath charging the state government and Society-run Tripura Medical College authority with depriving students of the state . Interacting with media-persons in his assembly chamber Ratanlal Nath said that the number of Tripura students admitted to the college could have increased further if the college authority had set aside 85 seats for state quota . 'In its notification for admission the TMC authority had initially kept 55 seats for Tripura-based students , 30 for students from outside states and 15 for central pool ; when we had protested a corrigendum had been issued that the thirty seats would be open for all and Tripura students would be considered if they qualified in the Common Entrance Test (CET) but now the admission profile proves that Tripura-based students have not been considered for the thirty seats' Nath said . He added that on the basis of merit list of the CET three more students each from unreserved and scheduled caste categories could have secured admission to firt year MBBS course.
'Another major irregularity committed by the TMC authority is that in the notification issued on June 10 they had said that state reservation policy which allotts 31% of seats to scheduled tribes and 17% to scheduled castes would be followed in the matter of admission but they have actually followed the central reservation policy which allotts fewer seats to both the categories' Nath said . He charged the TMC authority and the Society running it with financial irregularities and said that TMC authority admit that Rs 3.85 lakh is being charged from each student student 'but I am sure a much higher amount is being charged from the thirty students admitted from outside Tripura'. He also took serious exception to annual budgetary allocations to TMC and stashing of hefty fees collected from students to 'invisible' accounts and demanded an immediate and special audit of TMC's accounts by the CAG.
Apart from this, Nath has addressed two letters to the prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and chairman of Medical Council of India (MCI) Dr K.K.Talwar requesting them to exempt tribal students of Tripura from cut-off marks for admission to first year MBBS course. He said that supreme court's directive on 40% cut-off marks for tribal students in joint entrance examination has been in vow since the year 1995 but this was never followed in Tripura . 'This year they sudenly woke up to the stipulation about cut-off marks at the time of counselling though Tripura joint entrance board has mentioned nothing about it in its prospectus ;naturally crisis has erupted because 22 out of 25 seats reserved for ST category will remain vacant' Nath said . Charging the joint entrance board and education department of the state government with 'negligence and callousness' Nath said he had requested the prime minister and the MCI chairman to give an exemption for this year only in view of the failure of the joint entrance board to mention the requirement of cut-off marks . 'I do not know whether the MCI chairman and the prime minister will be able to do anything but I do know that the state government is fully responsible for this deprivation of tribal students' said Nath.
'Another major irregularity committed by the TMC authority is that in the notification issued on June 10 they had said that state reservation policy which allotts 31% of seats to scheduled tribes and 17% to scheduled castes would be followed in the matter of admission but they have actually followed the central reservation policy which allotts fewer seats to both the categories' Nath said . He charged the TMC authority and the Society running it with financial irregularities and said that TMC authority admit that Rs 3.85 lakh is being charged from each student student 'but I am sure a much higher amount is being charged from the thirty students admitted from outside Tripura'. He also took serious exception to annual budgetary allocations to TMC and stashing of hefty fees collected from students to 'invisible' accounts and demanded an immediate and special audit of TMC's accounts by the CAG.
Apart from this, Nath has addressed two letters to the prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and chairman of Medical Council of India (MCI) Dr K.K.Talwar requesting them to exempt tribal students of Tripura from cut-off marks for admission to first year MBBS course. He said that supreme court's directive on 40% cut-off marks for tribal students in joint entrance examination has been in vow since the year 1995 but this was never followed in Tripura . 'This year they sudenly woke up to the stipulation about cut-off marks at the time of counselling though Tripura joint entrance board has mentioned nothing about it in its prospectus ;naturally crisis has erupted because 22 out of 25 seats reserved for ST category will remain vacant' Nath said . Charging the joint entrance board and education department of the state government with 'negligence and callousness' Nath said he had requested the prime minister and the MCI chairman to give an exemption for this year only in view of the failure of the joint entrance board to mention the requirement of cut-off marks . 'I do not know whether the MCI chairman and the prime minister will be able to do anything but I do know that the state government is fully responsible for this deprivation of tribal students' said Nath.
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