M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, June 18: The practical and viva examinations of the second professional MBBS students of the session 2019-20 of the Medinirai Medical College Hospital (MMCH) at Pokhraha in Daltonganj are lying in limbo.
The Nilamber Pitamber University (NPU) had announced a 3-day schedule for the practical and viva exams of these MBBS students beginning June 20.
However, on the issue of the examiners, the fate of these practical and viva exams got caught in a mesh. The medical college has raised its hands saying it can’t hold it as ‘per the schedule’.
NPU sent the approved list of the examiners to conduct exams to the college concerned on June 16 which could have been sent earlier.
The principal of MMCH Dr Shailendra Kumar said, “We approached the examiners approved by the university to come and conduct the practical and viva examinations here slated for June 20, 21and 22. But many of them expressed their inability to come over here for this purpose.”
As the medical college can’t hire the services of the examiner on its own, it has to seek approval for any of its suggested names of the examiners.
Dr Shailendra Kumar said the medical college sent the names of the ‘alternative examiners’ to the university to approve and accordingly issue appointment letters for enabling them to seek permission from their respective controlling officers to undertake the work of conduct of the practical and viva examinations at MMCH. This letter of the names of the alternative examiners was sent to the university on June 16.
Dr Shailendra Kumar said, “We did not get any information from the university in this regard till June 17.”
“Some of the examiners whom we had suggested for approval from the university, work at places where Saturday is a non-office day and thus seeking permission to leave headquarters etc is not feasible,” the principal added.
Dr Shailendra Kumar said following this incommunicado on the part of the university this ‘very unfortunate’ situation has made it ‘not possible to hold practical and viva examinations as per schedule.’
On the other hand, NPU has a different stand and version. According to the university, the list of the university’s approved examiners is always made to change by the medical college taking a plea that the said examiners are not keen to come over here.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of NPU Dr Deep Narayan Yadav corroborated this stand and version of the university.
The university further says that in an event where the approved examiner is not willing to come and conduct the practical and viva examinations, the refusal should come in writing by any digital mode so that the university has a right to know about it. This will pave the way for some alternative arrangements.
University sources claimed the medical college pushes its own list of the examiners and wants the university to toe the line as well and this unnecessarily sours the relationship between the two besides cutting into the time frame for these examinations.
Sources said there is now a standoff between the medical college and the university and the practical and viva examinations which with June 20, 21 and 22 programme is not going to take off.
The MMCH principal said he has sent a letter to this effect to the Vice-Chancellor Dr Ram Lakhan Singh that as per this June 20 schedule, the practical and viva examinations are ‘not possible’.
Sources said the happy course can be that the university should take the medical college into confidence before finalising the list of the examiners for practical and viva examinations as then it will put to an end many a bickering between the two.
