Major lapses in Kannur MBBS admissions

Thiruvananthapuram: Major lapses were detected in the admission process in Kannur Medical College run by Prestige Educational Trust headed by Dr Hashim M.A. as director. The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations  had earlier decided to report to the High Court that the Kannur and Karuna medical colleges had not provided the details needed for conducting the spot admissions contrary to the laid- down procedures.

The CEE found that the website of the college www.anjarakandy.in does not have the details as directed by the oversight committee of the MCI.   The Admission Supervisory Committee  headed by Justice J.M. James had monitored the website of the Kannur Medical College to ascertain whether it was complying with the directions  of the committee. The screenshots of the website  showed that the information given by the college was regarding the 2013 admissions and not about 2016-17, sources said.

Further, there was no direct application link to the Kannur Medical College website and instead another site of the Minority Professional College Management Association  was used for inviting applications, sources said. There were complaints that the applicants were unable to  Kannur medical college due to lack of sufficient information and that they were unable to even draw the DD for want of specific direction in the prospectus. This was a violation of the approval order issued on September 9, sources said.

This site was also not directly notified by the medical  college to enable the applicants to enter and register their online applications. When the ASC monitored the MPCMA site also,  it did not provide any link for online submission of MBBS admissions 2016-17. The ASC  had issued another communication dated September 17 to the college directing it to immediately provide online application link. The monitoring of the websites of the  college  and the MPCMA  even later revealed that the college did not provide a direct online application link under the Kannur medical college website, sources said.