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Vigilance to probe PMT paper leak

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, on Wednesday ordered a Vigilance inquiry into the question paper leakage of the PMT-2005 entrance test, while Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) will now conduct the re-examination for the entrance to the medical colleges in Punjab instead of Baba Farid University for Health Sciences.

The Chief Minister has asked the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) to submit its inquiry report within 15 days, while the fresh date for the re-examination would be announced shortly, an official release here said.

It may be recalled that Deputy Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal had written to VB Chief ADGP A.P. Pandey yesterday to probe the PMT paper leakage. Moreover, the State Government has asked Baba Farid University for Health Sciences vice-chancellor J.S. Gujral not to initiate any probe on his own behalf as the matter was now under the probe by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB).

While the Chief Minister issued a statement here this evening that the re-exam would be conducted by the GNDU, Deputy Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said here that she had "directed" Baba Farid University vice-chancellor not to initiate any inquiry on his own behalf as the matter had gone to the VB.

"Since now everybody in the Baba Farid University, including its vice-chancellor, would be under the scanner of the Vigilance, it has now been decided that Guru Nanak Dev University would conduct the re-examination," said Ms Bhattal, who also held the portfolio of the Higher Education minister.

Reacting to the news reports that the vice-chancellor had appointed Justice (retd) J S Sekhon as a one-member panel to probe the paper leakage, Ms Bhattal said the VC's step held no significance now as the Vigilance had been asked to hold the probe. "The Vigilance has been asked for the probe on the basis of the preliminary report submitted to me by the Higher Education Principal Secretary within 48 hours of the paper leakage," Ms Bhattal said.

The cancellation of the PMT examination was ordered a day after the exam, following the media reports that the paper had been leaked. -- UNI

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