SHILLONG: UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh said that the State Government should keep it’s hands off from holding the entrance test for the MBBS seats reserved under the Central Pool for the State.
“I am strongly of the view that the entrance should be conducted by an independent body with no government interference,” Lyngdoh said during the Question Hour in the Assembly on Wednesday.
He also suggested that the answer scripts should be kept in a ‘safe custody’ so as to allow the students to have a re-look at them once there is an announcement of the result.
Meanwhile, Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek assured that the Government will ensure that there is total transparency in the entrance test.
“The department will take all steps to ensure that the test to be conducted is reliable and transparent,” Hek said.
Health and Family Welfare Minister said that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an instruction on February 27 that the selection of candidates for nomination against central pool seats will be made by the beneficiary of the States on the basis of the entrance test to be conducted by the concerned State Government.
“Following the above directives, the Government has no other option but to comply with the instruction keeping in mind the Medical Council of Indi’s Regulation and the interest of the student as a whole,” Lyngdoh said.
Replying to a supplementary question raised by Lyngdoh, he said that the Government has constituted a screening committee to overlook the conduct of the entrance test with the Principal Secretary in charge of Health and Family Welfare along with representatives from NEHU, NEIGRIHMS and Education department as its member.
However, Hek refused to divulge the names of the members of the screening.
