Admission: AIIMS told act on false undertakings

Updated on: Thursday, July 01, 2010

The Delhi High Court today directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) to cancel the admission of those candidates who have furnished false undertakings and were selected in counsellings conducted by AIIMS for post-graduation courses for 2010.
   
Directing AIIMS to verify the undertakings furnished by the candidates, Justice Mool Chand Garg asked the Director General of Medical Education (DGME) of Union of India to provide AIIMS by tomorrow the list of names of such candidates who obtained seats from outside after clearing the All India PG Entrance Examination (AIPGE) 2010 and again appeared in the counselling conducted by AIIMS for the institute.
   
The court order came after Ashish Bhagat, the counsel for one Varun Aggarwal, contended the premier institute did not follow the norms prescribed under AIIMS Act while selecting the candidates for post-graduation course.
   
The lawyer argued some candidates who obtained seats somewhere else under various state quota were also selected in the counselling conducted by AIIMS after furnishing undertakings, which was violative of AIIMS rules.
   
As per the norms, the candidates who accepted the offer outside were to be debarred from appearing for counselling in AIIMS, the counsel contended.
   
He further submitted that according to rules, four candidates per seat were to be called for counselling but AIIMS arbitrarily took a decision and called eight candidates per seat for the counsellings conducted on June 11 and 18.
   
"Some lower ranked candidates were selected due to faulty selection procedure and eligible candidates were deprived of admission," the lawyer added.
   
Supporting the petitioner's stand, the Centre's counsel Atul Nanda submitted government has been objecting to the selection procedure adopted by AIIMS, as a result of which several seats go waste after the candidates leave their previous seats.

Countering the arguments, the counsel for AIIMS submitted the institute followed the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court and the selection was done on merit basis.
   
The lawyer said the petitioner(Aggarwal) did not come under the merit list for general category for MS(Surgery) and he was not selected. However, he was offered seats in Biochemistry or Anatomy but he did not opt for either.
   
In the petition, Aggarwal, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, claimed he qualified both AIPGE as well as AIIMS PG entrance examinations for 2010 and did not take any other seat outside but the AIIMS management failed to call him for counselling in MS (Surgery) and four candidates who got lower rank than him and furnished false undertakings were selected for MS(surgery).

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