JOIN USExam fraud infects Nursing Board
An inspection by Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas at the Karnataka State Diploma in Nursing Examination Board (KSDNEB) on Friday has exposed large-scale irregularities in the issue of hall tickets.
The inspection brought to light a network in the State operated by an agent named Iqbal who had issued fake admission forms and availed hall tickets from the board for about 75 students, mainly from Rajasthan, to write the nursing examinations.
The agent had used nursing college names like Diana Institute of Nursing Sciences and Dasthi Institute of Nursing, both located in Mysore City, to issue fake admissions forms.
In reality, both these colleges have not been functional for the past two years and are not conducting any courses in General Nursing & Midwifery (GNM).
The management of the colleges were shocked to receive the letters from the Board in February first week saying that JSS Medical College was the examination centre for its students.
On enquiring about the letter, the managements found that the Board had issued hall tickets to 45 students from Diana Institute and 30 students from Dasthi Institute without their knowledge.
Further, the Board had even asked the colleges to conduct practical examinations to the students.
Complaint
The managements immediately complained to the minister about the fraud at the Board and the Karnataka Nursing Council.
Acting on the complaints, the minister visited the Board and inspected the documents pertaining to the fake applications and affiliation forms. On questioning, he found two employees at the KSDNEB –– Manjunath, a receptionist, and Sunanda, an office staff –– had not verified the documents from these two colleges and had blindly issued the hall tickets.
The minister found the employees guilty and suspended them till an inquiry into the issue was over.
Ramdas also said that MMU College of Pharmacy in Ramanagara and names of eight other colleges in the State were being used by agents to create fake documents and obtain hall tickets.
The Nursing Council will also be questioned about the matter.
“This fraud has a larger network in the State which still needs to be investigated. I will be registering a police complaint and requesting the chief minister to conduct a CID inquiry into it,” the minister said.