[1]Over 300 medicos held a sit-in and hunger protest at the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University campus on Saturday demanding that the university publish first-year results again as per Medical Council of India (MCI) norms and scrap the break system that it had brought in.
The protesters said the new system mandates a student to score a minimum mark in each subject rather than a cumulative average.
The university had also increased the minimum attendance percentage. The students were upset about the new rule according to which a student needs to take a six-month break before he takes the failed exam again.
A student claimed that MCI norms stipulate that a student has to score a cumulative average of 50 per cent in all papers whereas the university wants students to score 50 per cent in each paper.
Dr G.R. Ravindranath, general secretary of Doctors’ Association for Social Equality (DASE), has urged chief minister J. Jayalalithaa to intervene and get justice for the students.
“The students have urged the university to publish the revised results for first-year MBBS following MCI norms, besides providing holiday between exams and giving students their right to revaluation and re-totalling. Our association has urged the CM to support the students and continue the older system,” he said.
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