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2,000 took Gujarat Ayurved varsity exam; V-C says paper ‘leak’ probe on | Ahmedabad News

2,000 took Gujarat Ayurved varsity exam; V-C says paper ‘leak’ probe on | Ahmedabad News

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3 min readAhmedabadJul 29, 2026 12:50 AM IST More than 2,000 Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) students enrolled in 26 colleges in Gujarat took the Shalya Tantra-1 exam, the questions of which are suspected to have been leaked. The alleged leak is now under investigation by the Gujarat Ayurved University (GAU). This comes just days after nationwide protests over exam paper leaks, which eventually led to the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as the Union Education Minister. Meanwhile, the Jamnagar-based university has had no full-time vice-chancellor since Mukul Patel, who was appointed by the government in March 2022 and retired in March 2025. After Patel’s retirement, the government named Vd. Nareshkumar D Jain, Principal of JP Government Ayurved College in Bhavnagar, the in-charge GAU VC in the same month. Speaking to media persons in Jamnagar, Jain said, “The exam for the (Shalya Tantra-1) paper was held between 9 am and 12:30 pm. Then we found out that the paper shared similarities with a message going around on WhatsApp. When the university came to know about …

Gujarat Ayurveda University orders probe into alleged BAMS exam paper leak

Gujarat Ayurveda University orders probe into alleged BAMS exam paper leak

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The Gujarat Ayurved University in Jamnagar has ordered an inquiry into allegations that the question paper for a third-year Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) examination was leaked, after students claimed that nearly all the questions had been circulated on WhatsApp group chats before the test. The Gujarat Ayurved University campus in Jamnagar. (Sourced) The allegations pertain to the third-year BAMS Shalya Tantra-I examination conducted on July 20. Students alleged that 11 of the 12 questions in the paper matched questions that had been circulated on WhatsApp before the examination, and were marked as important. HP Jhala, director in-charge of examinations at the university, said the test concluded at 12.30pm on July 20 and he received a complaint regarding the alleged paper leak later that evening. “We have received a complaint about an alleged paper leak. Some of the questions asked in the examination are alleged to have been circulated in some groups and marked as important questions. We will investigate whether there was any irregularity and whether the allegations are true,” Jhala said. …