HC declines to interfere with new norms for theory paper assessment

Ordinance was promulgated by RGUHS for MBBS course

Observing that students pursuing medical course have to maintain high academic integrity and cannot insist on lowering education standards, the High Court of Karnataka has declined to interfere with an Ordinance governing central assessment programme for theory paper assessment of MBBS course promulgated by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

“This court is of the view that the petitioners have failed to establish that the university has adopted unfair methods while promulgating the impugned Ordinance. It is also found that there are absolutely no materials to indicate the magnitude of impugned action so disproportionate that erratic evaluation would go unnoticed under the impugned Ordinance,” the court observed.