India: Medical students create ruckus on Lucknow- Kanpur highway

Kanpur: MBBS First-year students of the Saraswati Medical College created a ruckus accusing the college management of going wrong on their results twice continuously.

They demonstrated by converging on Lucknow- Kanpur highway for two hours.

There was seen long queues of the vehicles queued up on the lane going from Lucknow to Kanpur.

Hasanganj CO helped the students to talk to the college director.

The students remained calm on the written assurance on correcting their results of the examination.

150 students of MBBS 2019 1st batch in Saraswati Medical College had appeared in Physiology, Biochemistry and Anatomy on January 28, 2020, at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur.

According to the students, their result came on June 5.

Only 20 students were successful in the examination results.

The supplementary examination of 130 failed students was held on September 27.

As many as 25 students succeeded and 105 failed again.

Getting angry at this, the students took to the road at 11:55 am on Wednesday and sat on the Lucknow- Kanpur highway.

They accused the medical college management of their result.
It is alleged that while taking admission in the year 2019-20, a security amount of Rs 3 lakh was deposited along with a fee of15 lakh for the first year.

Thus an amount of 54 lakh per student has been deposited in three years due to remaining unsuccessful in the examinations.

The students said that the dispute between the college management and the university was the reason behind their poor results.

All of us students have cleared the NEET exam. In such a situation, continuous failure is raising doubts.

According to the students, 98 students have failed in Physiology, 50 in Biochemistry and 13 in Anatomy.

Now the management will bear whatever expenses will be incurred in the examinations.

After listening to the students, CO Hasanganj RK Shukla called the college director Saurabh Kanwar to the protest site and arranged a talk with the students.

He gave a written assurance to the students that a five-member panel of the college would visit the university and get the problems resolved.

After the commotion calmed down the traffic passed on. It took two hours for the traffic on the highway to return to normal, said the eyewitnesses.