New Delhi, June 6: The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has reaffirmed that the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) June 2024 was conducted on Saturday across the nation as per the schedule.
The FMGE June 2024 Session scheduled to be held on 6th July was smoothly conducted at 71 centres in 50 cities in 21 states. 255 appraisers were appointed for 71 centres. 53 faculty members were appointed as flying squad. DGHS had nominated 71 members to visit the exam centres. 42 NBEMS staff were deputed at these centres.
35819 candidates were scheduled to take the exam today.
The content was successfully downloaded at all test centres. The examination started at all examination centres smoothly. A team of officers from MHA had visited NBEMS HQ. No untoward incidence has been reported.
Command centre has been set up at the NBEMS HQ, Dwarka where Governing Body members, senior NBEMS officers, technical team of 20 TCS officials, almost 150 NBEMS officials, senior officers of I4C and officers from local police administration are keeping a close watch on the progress of examination. Each and every test centre is monitored through Live CCTV feed. Ground team of TCS officials are attending to the operational and logistics issues at the test centres.
The board also cautioned medical aspirants to be vigilant against fraudulent social media groups attempting to deceive them by offering FMGE questions in exchange for money. These groups are bogus and aim to exploit unsuspecting candidates.
This comes after a complaint was registered in Kerala against the fraudsters who were making advertisements of FMGE question and answer keys on social media. On June 4, FMGE's question paper and answer keys were put on sale on Telegram.
Kerala cyber police took action and registered a case after an announcement was made on social media that the FMGE question paper and answer key were for sale.
