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Homeopathy college cries foul Thursday, July 5, 2001

By A Staff Reporter, The Times of India News Service
AHMEDABAD: The declaration of Bachelor of Homeopathy Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) results late last week and the sharp decrease in the success rate of the Ahmedabad Homeopathy College has its director Dr Jayesh Patel crying foul play and alleging a witch-hunt by the BJP government.

The Ahmedabad College, a self-financed institution, saw its results drop from close to 74 per cent last year to 32 per cent this year (18 per cent in second year of the course) following sweeping changes in the examination procedures and a change of guard in the examination committee at the North Gujarat University to which the college is affiliated.

North Gujarat University's BHMS examination co-ordinator, Dr Pinakin Trivedi claimed that they introduced the Central Homeopathy Council's guidelines of doing away with internal marking. On top of that, he added, they changed the examination process, introduced coded roll numbers and centralised assessment making it difficult for students to approach the assessors after the examinations.

However, Dr Patel, who is also elected member of the Central and State Homeopathy Councils, said it was not standardisation of procedures but foul play. On the other hand, he added, Trivedi is coming up with his own college and so this could be a motive to tarnish the image of other colleges.

He said Trivedi is an 'RSS man' and not even a assistant professor and despite this he was given the job of co-ordinating the examinations against the norms of the Central Council.

On the other hand he brought in about half the examination and assessment staff from non-teaching background. The North Gujarat University, on Trivedi's advise, also advertised that 30 per cent of the syllabus was to be omitted. But subsequently the questions were asked from the omitted portions.

However, senior homeopathy practitioners and faculties alleged that the college was taking large donations and fancy (Rs 35,000) annual fees.

Dr Trivedi said of the 30 internal marks they found that students were being awarded 25 to 27 marks, leaving them the task of earning only 23 to 25 marks in the external examinations out of a total 70 marks to pass the exams. Even there, the nexus was set, claimed a senior faculty and practitioner of the city.

Ahmedabad college principal Dr Mahendra Alpara was also the examination co-ordinator which explains why his college had a success rate in excess of 70 per cent, while, on the other hand, the government granted colleges in Vadodara and Anand used to have a success rate of 30 to 40 per cent.

This year all these self-financed colleges (there are five in all) have suffered due to standardisation of examination procedures, Dr Trivedi added. "We have come across cases where students with multiple attempts in the HSC examinations have beein given admissions and there are many cases where students with 35 to 40 per cent have got admissions'', he added.

News Source : Times Of India News Service [ Lightning News ]

 

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