DNA: Mumbai: Sunday, December 02, 2018.
As per the information provided under an
RTI, University of Mumbai earned Rs 4.8 crore from the re-evaluation of the
exam papers and around Rs 15 lakhs by issuing photocopies to students from the
2016-17 academic year.
In the academic year 2017-2018, the
amount received by the varsity on re-evaluation and photocopies from the
students are 3.4 crores and around 13 lakh respectively.
The information was provided to an RTI
activist, Vihar Durve, who had filed an RTI in which it was revealed that
around 97,000 students applied for re-evaluation out which 35,000 were wrongly
marked failed in their examination of the 2016-17 academic year.
They cleared their exams only after
re-evaluation of their answer papers. Even while giving answer sheets sought
under re-evaluation, some of students were even given wrong answer sheet. So if
an answer sheet was sought by a student who had written exams in Marathi
language, he was given answer sheet of English language.
Durve said, “If Mumbai University (MU)
has earned so huge amount in re-evaluation and photocopies then they should
provide compensation or refund to those students who were wrongly marked failed
in their examination.”
Durve has asked in a recent RTI about the
information of how many students have passed their first half examination of
2018 on which the University has revealed that the process of declaring the
results of those students are still in process and so the information on the
same cannot be provided. When contacted the officials for comments, they
refused to comment.
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