Bombay High Court refuses to stay MUHS’s health science exams
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The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Saturday refused to grant interim aid to roughly 44,000 medical college students throughout the nation who’re to seem bodily for the examinations held by the Maharashtra University of Health Science’s (MUHS) on June 10.
A single bench of justice Avinash Gharote mentioned, “Every examinee should have himself tested for COVID-19 and produce a negative report along with his hall ticket. As a safety measure, it would be advisable for each examinee to have conducted an RT-PCR test upon himself and only in case, he finds such a test is negative, he may sit for the examinations.”
“The MUHS, therefore, is directed to issue an advisory to the principals of various colleges and also to publish on its website indicating that it would be desirable that each examinee should have himself tested for COVID-19 and should produce a negative report along with his hall ticket on June 10. In case, an examinee does not have such a certificate, he should be permitted to enter the exam but should also be asked to get an RT-PCR test conducted upon himself and produce a report in that regard on the next date of the examination. Needless to say if the report is found positive, the examinee would not be in a position to take the examination”, the courtroom mentioned.
Plea for on-line examination
The bench was listening to a public curiosity litigation (PIL) petition filed by NGO Herd Foundation and Nitesh Tantarpale, a scholar, via advocate Rahul Bhangde, difficult the MUHS’s determination in addition to the route to signal an endeavor that the State wouldn’t be held accountable if college students contracted COVID-19 due to showing within the examination. The plea urged that a web based examination be held for ‘Winter 2020’ through which graduate and post-graduate college students would seem for certificates programs. It talked about that a number of college students and members of the family examined COVID-19 optimistic after the NEET in September final.
In the final listening to, advocate Abhijit Deshpande, for the MUHS, defended its stand, saying: “We had conducted a physical exam last year. Two phases of the ‘Winter 2020’ have already been conducted and the third exam will begin on June 10, so all question papers have been dispatched.”
The courtroom mentioned there was a concern that the virus would unfold due to the congregation. Mr Deshpande mentioned, “We are taking all the precautions. We have floated a ‘suraksha kavach’ scheme for the students.”
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