PATNA: Medical education and family welfare minister
Shakeel Ahmad on Monday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged
irregularities in the All India Postgraduate (PG) Entrance Examination,
2002, conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
leading to the leakage of question papers.
Addressing the junior doctors sitting on an indefinite fast since
February 23 on the Patna Medical College campus in support of their
demands for a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities and removal of
controller of examination Y K Gupta of AIIMS, Ahmad said that he would
also request Union health and family welfare minister C P Thakur to
cancel the examination and hold a fresh one.
The junior doctors called off their indefinite fast programme following
the assurance given by Ahmad.
Earlier, the junior doctors staged a demonstration at the Rajendra
Surgical Block (RSB) of the PMCH during the inauguration of college
Foundation Day and Alumni Reunion Day. The junior doctors also demanded
the resignation of Thakur on moral grounds.
The doctors informed Ahmad that 500 candidates were selected for various
PG courses from Lucknow centre alone due to irregularities while the
number of candidates selected from Bihar had come down to 30. Ahmad said
that the students of Bihar were not at all inferior to their
counterparts in other states
