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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Union govt rejects cut off marks relaxation

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Agartala, Aug 25, 2011 : After a long wait, union health ministry finally downed the shutters for ST students waiting for entry in MBBS course denying relaxation of cut-off marks on Wednesday.

The Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a communiqué sent to Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said, “`Though this ministry agrees on principle that there is a need to enable and encourage the underprivileged sections of the society, as far medical education is concerned, there are two aspects-one is teaching and the other is treatment”.

“The medical students deal with ‘living human beings’ during the course of study and once they qualify, they would be treating the ailing human beings during rest of their professional career”, said Azad.

Pointing to the career of medical students Azad said, “It is felt that diluting criteria would neither be feasible nor desirable”.

On August 9, Sarkar requested Union Health Minister to intervene into the deadlock that sealed the fate of 29 ST candidates in Tripura.

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