From Our Spl Correspondent
Agartala: Opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath on Tuesday demanded judicial inquiry into alleged large-scale financial irregularity in the admission process of the Tripura Medical College (TMC). The society-run TMC is supposed to earn Rs. 9 crore annually by way of admitting 30 students through the Common Entrance Test (CET), said Ratan Lal Nath, the opposition leader at a press conference here. “But nobody know where the money goes collected by admitting 30 students in the TMC”, he said adding that it was the government’s duty to clear the doubts over the admission process in the TMC.
Nath alleged that a vested interest racket had been developed within the TMC to siphoned away money by admitting 30 students in the society-run medical college. “There must be a judicial probe into the matter to unearth the truth”, he said. Altogether three domicile students could not get admission even clearing the CET owing to dearth of money.
Referring to the CPM’s double standard on the education policy, Nath said that its frontal wings- SFI and DYFI are vocal against the commercialization of education in Kerala but in Tripura they are mum on the CET for admission in TMC.
He said that SFI and DYFI had staged massive protest rally in Kerala demanding 50 percent reservation for domicile students in the private medical institute. “In Tripura, the CPM organs- SFI and DYFI are dancing in tune with the CPM led government which has been striving for privatization in the education sector”, he alleged.
Nath also criticized the Left Front government for putting blame on the opposition for July 10 and 11 incidents in which one innocent shop keeper shot dead and fifty more were injured.
“Congress had protested the government move for the interest of the state’s interest but it was unfortunate that the government machineries had resorted force to conduct the CET”, he added.