Times
of India: Rajkot: Saturday, 25 July 2015.
A single mark
here or there can actually jeopardize a student's career, especially who is
pursuing a professional degree course. But state's largest university Gujarat
Technological University (GTU) doesn't seem to care about this.
A Right to
Information (RTI) application has revealed how callously the answer sheets of
thousands of students are examined and the abnormally large number of errors that
have happened in counting marks.
An
application filed under Right to Information (RTI) has revealed that marks of
nearly 36% MBA students in the winter session were corrected after they went of
re-checking and reassessment in 2014.
Of the total
11,165 students, who applied for re-checking and reassessment, the results of
4,100 students were changed.
"The
replies to my RTI expose the magnitude of errors in paper checking and how
students' careers are compromised with. In re-assessment of winter-2014 session
of MBA, 5,280 students had applied for re-assessment, of which results of 3,312
students changed. It shows how utterly callous the examiners are while
evaluating the answer sheets," said Deep Maradia, a final-year student of
mechanical engineering at a city-based college under GTU.
What's more,
GTU has earned a whopping Rs 2.46 crore from the fees for re-checking and
reassessment in 2013-2014. This is nearly half of GTU's total annual income
from fees of various courses.
"When
results change after the re-assessment, the university must refund the fees of
the re-assessment application as it was evaluators' mistake and not the
students. Why should students pay up for their misconduct?" Maradia said.
Maradia has
been fighting for justice from GTU by using RTI since last three years.
"I
suspect such carelessness in all programs of GTU but even in re-assessments in
programs like Bachelor of Engineering, we are not getting proper reply,"
Maradia said.
Maradia has
now filed an RTI application to find out how many examiners, who were found
responsible for wrong evaluation of answer sheets, were fined and actions taken
against them.
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