Zee
News: Kota: Saturday, 03 October 2015.
Scores of
candidates who appeared for the 2012 Rajasthan Administrative Services exam are
claiming glaring discrepancies in the marking of their answer sheets after
accessing the same using RTI applications.
Several of
these candidates, who have successfully cleared the exam whose result was
announced in July this year, said that their ranking has suffered due to the
alleged inconsistency in the marking pattern wherein the same answer has been
ticked correct in one script but marked as incorrect in another.
Charging that
the scripts obtained by them shows that the marking for the RAS 2012 was done
without a model answer key, these candidates are now demanding a CBI inquiry
into the matter and have formed an 'RAS Pariksha Sangharsh Samiti' to pursue
the matter.
"After
the RAS 2012 results were declared, around 300 candidates who got selected but
were not satisfied with their ranking acquired the answer sheets through
RTI," said Ravindra Mohan Sharma, the president of the Samiti.
"Shocking
state of wrong and incorrect marking was found
in these answer sheets, clearly indicating that they were checked without model
answer keys," he added.
Jyoti, a
teacher at a government school here, said, "Several of my correct answers
have been ticked as wrong, causing me a loss of over 20 marks." Having
appeared for RAS 2012, Jyoti, too, had accessed her answer sheets using RTI
after she was selected for the allied services.
Another
teacher at the government senior secondary school, Rajkumari, who similarly
obtained her answer sheets using RTI, said that many of her correct answers
were marked incorrect while, in other places, she was not marked properly.
Meanwhile,
one Alok Sharma, who said he was placed 65th in RAS 2010 but qualified at 440th
in the 2012 exam, claimed that incorrect marking had cost him between 50 to 60
marks.
"The
marking pattern of the commission has left hundreds of eligible candidates
shocked and disappointed," he said. Sharma claimed that the instances of
inconsistent marking points to a "selection scam".
He said that
over 17,000 candidates had appeared in RAS 2012 main exams of which 3,000 had
qualified for the interview. The process had finally seen 1,211 candidates
being selected to the prestigious state service.
Some
candidates have further claimed that they have received threats after they
posted images of the answer sheets obtained through RTI on social media.
The
allegations by these candidates come even as the CBI is investigating massive
irregularities in the alleged Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh.