Punjab Ekta Party (PEP) president Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday demanded from the Punjab Government to “plug the loopholes” in the admission process of the state’s Government Medical Colleges to protect the interests of local students and block students from other states who are “exploiting rules” to grab the MBBS seats in Punjab.
“Due to faulty admission criteria, the students of other states are eating into the share of Punjab students in the state-run medical colleges which is a grave injustice with the meritorious students who want to get admission in Government medical colleges despite scoring high marks in the entrance test,” he said, pointing that the Punjab and Haryana High Court has already, in 2014, ordered to change the rules for admission in MBBS.
Khaira said that under the existing MBBS admission rules, students who pass out their higher secondary classes from Punjab are eligible for admission in Government medical colleges in the State.
“Students from Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and even from Chandigarh get dummy admission in Punjab schools, in connivance with the school authorities, and then these students get private coaching and score higher marks in PMT entrance test to jeopardize the future of students who belong to Punjab,” he alleged.
Alleging that the politicians, bureaucrats and other influential people who live in Chandigarh and neighbouring states were exploiting loopholes in the system and grabbing seats meant for Punjab students, Khaira urged the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to take call of the aggrieved parents and deliver justice to them.
“When other states do not allow Punjab students to compete in their states for profession courses, then why Punjab?” he asked.
He pointed that large number of parents of aspiring students had made representations to the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Health Minister and Baba Farid University of
Health Sciences Faridkot Vice Chancellor not to allow students from other States to avail double benefit state quota of MBBS and BDS courses.
