LUCKNOW The state government on Tuesday suspended 891 students who allegedly took admission to Ayush colleges across UP without scoring the cut-off marks in the NEET-2021 exam. This was the highest number of suspensions in one go in such an admission scam in the state. Many students were served notices and asked to prove that their admissions were not bogus.
As many as 22 of these 891 students were identified as those who got admission without even taking the national eligibility-cum-entrance-test (NEET), the gateway for admission to MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BUMS, BHMS courses in the country.
“All these 891 students will remain suspended till the probe is completed. Their admission shall be terminated, if it is found erroneous in the inquiry to be conducted by the CBI, for which the state government has already made a recommendation,” said Dayashankar Mishra, state’s AYUSH minister.
On November 4, the department of Ayurveda initiated an internal inquiry and then lodged an FIR, after it came to light that many students got admission to Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy colleges in violation of rules. The Ayush minister wrote a letter to the chief minister’s office, seeking a high-level inquiry from an independent agency and the state government recommended a CBI probe into the admission anomalies.
“There is a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption. The fate of all these students under suspension and also officials under scanner will depend on the outcome of the inquiry….
