As I bent down to take the daily newspaper, the headlines made me stick to it for the rest of the morning and discuss for the rest of the day. I felt really sorry, but why...even AIIMS seats are sold, why not PGI, Chandigarh's?
The racket of unscrupulous agents securing MD seats in the prestigious Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research by charging a hefty price to aspirants, exposed by The Tribune yesterday, is just the tip of the iceberg. It has left the Health Ministry shocked, the alumni shocked...
The paper quoted, 'Calling it a big blow to the institute’s decades old prestigious status, former director Dr SK Sharma says, “Getting a seat in the PGI is the dream of every medical student and securing one is very tough. The PGI has been known as an institution immune to all kinds of pressures. Having headed the institution for several years, it comes as a big shock that somebody has been able to buy a seat. The blot can only be washed away by severely punishing the culprits.”'
This news led me to think about the year 1991 when I appeared in medical entrance exams. I had done my best and was hopeful of the getting a seat in one of the medical colleges in the state, when news arrived that the exam papers had leaked, so re-exams were scheduled. Due to certain unavoidable circumstances, I didn't fair the next time. Hard luck or bad work, whatever to be blamed...time heals many things leaving scars. It was my first personal encounter with such circumstances and I felt helpless and hopeless at the same time. Since then, it is unusual if an exam is conducted without any paper leaks or selling of seats.
No exams in this country are left untouched by such paper leak experts. IITs are still considered prestigious institutes of this country where only topmost brains enter even their reputation thwarted when in 1997, a re-examination was ordered to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the Indian Institute of Technology following leakage of two papers of Physics & Chemistry (combined) and Mathematics.This was for the first time in the 40-year-old history of JEE that papers had leaked. Last year CAT (Combined Aptitude Test) papers leaked, even there was news of IAS paper being leaked in Rajasthan. No matter how prestigious the exams, paper leaks have become the order of the day.
Money can buy everything, even degrees??
What kind of skilled generation we are giving to the nation? The rich will have all sorts of degrees with nil aptitude.As if reservations were not enough to cope with, we are creating a new class of unskilled rich in most prestigious institutions.Should we now say that no more 'prestigious' institutions in India...down fall has begun or is there any hope?
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