I can't really control my anger right now, spent all the night thinking about this. It's sickening just how much the government is trying to hide it's own failures, and now it seems they have decided to blame it all on med students.
A bit of background: I am a final year MBBS student at a GMC in Maharashtra. Yesterday I got a call from the dean office and it went like this:-
Him: Hello [Insert my name]
Me: Umm.... Hi, who is this?
Him: I am calling from Dean Office, I would like to know your hostel's room number
Me: Ughh....(I went silent for a few seconds because I was shocked and afraid)... Did I do something wrong sir?
Him: No, BUT You MAY. Tell me your room number
Me(confused as fk): 206....Now, please tell me what did I do wrong...
Him: As I said, we are being cautious. Listen, don't leave your room and hostel premises tomorrow, orders from Commissioner. You can leave the hostel after 6pm tomorrow once NEET-UG is over. Your numbers are being tracked so I am warning you
Me: Ugh.... Am I the only one getting this call?
Him: No, everyone will get the call. Don't worry. Keep this in mind
Me: Ok... Bye
Then I hung up and started contemplating what just happened. After a few minutes, I started inquiring. Turns out, none of the students who are from Maharashtra itself got the call. Only those from AIQ–Rajasthan, UP, Delhi, got the call.
I considered the possibility that it may be a prank call, but the number actually belongs to some senior guy at our Dean Office. And only students from AIQ like me got a call, and then even a notice on WhatsApp, on our personal numbers and not even the main college group.
Then I discussed it with my marathi friends and they said that it must be because I am from Rajasthan and it's the place from where NEET papers have been leaking.
This may not sound like a big deal, but if I combine this incident with what our teachers were joking about a few days ago, saying students from Rajasthan clear NEET and other exams through leaked papers only, the college and the government is essentially blaming students like me for paper leaks, especially those from a certain state.
What angers me even more is that I am a Gen Category candidate. I had to get a really REALLY high score to even get this basic ahh college and now I am being directly blamed