Times of India: Jaipur: Saturday, 26 June 2021.
Shreyank Sisodia, a first-year student of Law College in Rajasthan University would have topped the final year exam if he had received good marks in Public Interest Litigation subject.
After being passed by grace, he applied for revaluation, re-checking, but finally an RTI revealed that his answer sheet was torn and on basis of which he was marked. Along with Shreyank, his two other batchmates faced similar problem and both of them were marked failed. These students were not satisfied with their marks, applied for re-checking, then re-evaluation and then RTI. The university has now decided to give these students another chance to take exam, but students are not satisfied with that and want action to be taken against the examiner.
“When we filed the RTI, the university organised a committee in which they showed us our torn copies. But still they refused to provide us our answer sheets which is our right .They want us to take exam again or some form of settlement, but we want to know how did the examiner check a copy without noticing that pages were torn,” Shreyank said.
Shubham Sharma, another student, said it is not possible to fail students without putting any liability on the teacher who checked the answer sheets.
The university administration said that students will be allowed to take exams when they want, but action will not be taken against the examiner. Chief exam controller Vinod Gupta said, “The committee decided that students will be allowed another exam. The examiner wasn’t found guilty in the committee.” The university is citing Section 169 of Rajasthan University Act in which a student is allowed to take re-exam in case answer sheet gets torn, burnt or gets wet. However, the section is applicable before copies are checked by the examiner, not when RTI is filed.
Shreyank Sisodia, a first-year student of Law College in Rajasthan University would have topped the final year exam if he had received good marks in Public Interest Litigation subject.
After being passed by grace, he applied for revaluation, re-checking, but finally an RTI revealed that his answer sheet was torn and on basis of which he was marked. Along with Shreyank, his two other batchmates faced similar problem and both of them were marked failed. These students were not satisfied with their marks, applied for re-checking, then re-evaluation and then RTI. The university has now decided to give these students another chance to take exam, but students are not satisfied with that and want action to be taken against the examiner.
“When we filed the RTI, the university organised a committee in which they showed us our torn copies. But still they refused to provide us our answer sheets which is our right .They want us to take exam again or some form of settlement, but we want to know how did the examiner check a copy without noticing that pages were torn,” Shreyank said.
Shubham Sharma, another student, said it is not possible to fail students without putting any liability on the teacher who checked the answer sheets.
The university administration said that students will be allowed to take exams when they want, but action will not be taken against the examiner. Chief exam controller Vinod Gupta said, “The committee decided that students will be allowed another exam. The examiner wasn’t found guilty in the committee.” The university is citing Section 169 of Rajasthan University Act in which a student is allowed to take re-exam in case answer sheet gets torn, burnt or gets wet. However, the section is applicable before copies are checked by the examiner, not when RTI is filed.
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