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AIIMS student claims examiners failed him for being Dalit |
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Written by Correspondent
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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 New Delhi: Calling up the Dean to find out about his re-examination is daily routine for Ajay Kumar Singh.
"I want to find out when will my re-examination happen. I want to know" are the words that he finds himself repeating daily. Ajay is a final year student of India's most prestigious medical college, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and now he is at the centre of a raging controversy. Ajay is a Dalit and he believes that's why he has been failed in his final exam.
"They asked me what my involvement was in the Thorat Committee; and they asked me about my involvement in Dalit politics during the viva. How can I expect them to pass me?" he says.
Allegations of caste bias in the institute are not new, but the authorities claim that Ajay has a very poor track record. "This is not the first time he has failed. He has a very bad track record at AIIMS. Somebody is inciting him to do this," says AIIMS Faculty Spokesperson Shakti Gupta.
However, Ajay says he will not take the re-examination unless it is conducted by a completely new set of examiners. Backing him are members of the governing body, considered close to Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.
"The examination process at AIIMS is susceptible to subjective view points of the faculty. Ajay Kumar Singh should be re-examined by outsiders," says a member of the governing body of AIIMS K M Shyamprasad.
The AIIMS administration and the governing body have taken two contradictory stands on the re-examination of Ajay Kumar Singh, but as this political standoff continues, the fate of Ajay Kumar Singh hangs precariously in the middle.
(Source: ibnlive dated 06 July 2007)
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