PGI to launch 3-tier biometric system for MD, MS exams
Not leaving any chance to an impersonator this time, the premier institution of the region, PGIMER will for the first time introduce a three-tier biometric system during the ensuing MD/ MS exams. It was almost eight months ago that the institute had hit the news after two of its junior resident doctors got admission fraudulently after someone else impersonated for them in the entrance exam. The PGI authorities will soon introduce a biometric system under which the thumb impression, finger print and photograph of the candidate sitting in the examination would be taken and then be stored in a database. In fact, PGI will be the first institution in north India to be putting such a system in place. Till now, only Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, has such a mechanism in place during examinations. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has only a trial run going on for this system. Explaining how the system would work, Dr A...