DNA: Mumbai: Thursday, June 07, 2018.
Nearly 50 per
cent of the candidates who applied for re-assessment of marks for their diploma
(winter 2017 exam) saw that their marks change, mostly for the better, as per
details provided under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The data was
provided to a parent, Anis Khan, who had sought details of the number of cases
in which marks have changed post re-assessment.
As per the
information provided to Khan, of the 5,018 applications that were made, in
2,297 cases, the marks were changed. Most of them changed upwards by up to nine
marks. In case of 2,721 cases, there was no change in the marks.
Khan had
sought the details from the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
(MSBTE), after his own son did not get as many marks as he had expected in his
diploma exam of electrical engineering. He had also applied for re-assessment
in case of his son's papers.
Khan was
denied the request until the state information commission (SIC) stepped in and
directed the Board to provide him with details of answer sheet post
reassessment. When he got the papers after the SIC order, he got to know one of
the papers had a totaling mistake.
"I do
not understand how do they correct the papers. Students sometimes take drastic
steps if they do not do well," said Khan.
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