Probe Kaloji University Scams: Harish Rao

Former minister and BRS MLA Harish Rao today wrote a letter to the Telangana Governor and the Chairman of the National Medical Commission (NMC), urging immediate action against the "large-scale corruption unfolding" at Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.

In his letter, Rao expressed deep concern that the university had turned into a centre of corruption and irregularities under the Congress rule. He said that the recent developments at the university had caused distress among medical students, parents and the public.

He accused the government of remaining silent even after serious allegations surfaced regarding irregularities in the PG medical exam revaluation process. He asked how five students who initially failed the exam were later declared passed. Allegations suggested that the university's Vice-Chancellor, Dr Nandakumar Reddy, was behind these irregularities, and yet the government had taken no action, he said.

He said that for the first time in the university's history a student had passed an exam after a re-counting process, which violated the university's norms. According to both university rules and NMC guidelines, only re-counting was allowed and not revaluation, and it was a serious violation of academic standards, he added.

A vigilance inquiry revealed that after the exams were over, the Vice-Chancellor had allowed the students to rewrite answers on cross-marked pages in their answer scripts. He then had those papers re-evaluated and ensured that higher marks were awarded to help the five students pass. The BRS MLA described this as a clear case of academic fraud.

Rao said that the VC had failed to properly conduct the PG medical examinations and instead prioritised political pressures over capable administration. As a result, the university's reputation had been severely damaged, he claimed.

The BRS leader also said that all the five students belonged to private medical colleges, and suspicions had been raised about multi-crore deals between those colleges and the Vice-Chancellor. He alleged that large sums of money had changed hands during this entire episode, and asked who was protecting the VC and why the government was hesitating to act.

He described the incident as not just an embarrassment to Kaloji University but one of the most disgraceful events in the country's medical education history. Rao said that despite coming to power in the name of change, the Congress had become a symbol of scams within just two years. He claimed that even educational institutions were being turned into hubs of corruption, which reflected poorly on the government's integrity and the Chief Minister's leadership. Quoting poet Sri Sri's famous line "nothing is unfit for poetry", Rao remarked that it seemed like Revanth Reddy believed that nothing is unfit for scams.