The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) today made history of sorts when it gave medals to meritorious students only to take them back within an hour.The drama was enacted on the occasion of the fourth Foundation Day of the MUHS for which several students had been invited to receive medals. Among them were two students of Bachelor of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology (BASLP) from Topiwala National Medical College and Hospital, Mumbai.When the students arrived from Mumbai, they were told they would not get medals as their names were not in the list of awardees. Later, when they protested, they were presented with medals on the dais but these had somebody else’s names engraved on them. After the function, the medals were taken back and the students were assured that medals with their names and the certificates would be sent to them in a few days. The MUHS organised the function to award medals to toppers of examinations conducted from 1999 to 2001 in various faculties. Recipients like Avesha Pradeep Mehta and Nehal Naren Kothari from BASLP got invitations from Controller of Examinations, MUHS, to visit Nashik to receive the medals. When both landed at the function, they were told their names did not figure in the list of awardees. The climax was yet to come. When the function concluded, the person who proposed a vote of thanks asked the awardees to wait in the lobby where MUHS officials asked them to return the medals.
