The University of Mumbai has decided to ask colleges to adhere to a strict code of conduct for supervision during examination and checking of answer sheets in graduate courses like engineering.
The University of Mumbai has decided to ask colleges to adhere to a strict code of conduct for supervision during examination and checking of answer sheets in graduate courses like engineering.
Now, supervisors will be held directly responsible if cases of malpractices are reported. After two university staffers were caught stealing answer sheets of engineering students, the university has decided to order a high-level inquiry into the incident.
On Wednesday, university examination house officials caught two temporary staffs who had stolen engineering answer papers from the university’s central assessment centre at Kalina. The Bandra-Kurla Complex police arrested the two and booked them under Section of 381 of the IPC.
The accused, Suresh Bhujbal, 30, and Ransingh Girase, 33, were produced in a metropolitan court on Thursday, which sent them to police custody till June 27. The cops are also investigating the involvement of students in the case.
“All these answer papers seized from the staffers have some specific remarks deliberately made by students to help identify their papers. It is expected that these problems should be taken care of while collecting the answer sheets from students in the examination hall, but it did not happen. If the supervisor had seen the suspicious remarks on the answer sheet, they should have immediately brought it to the notice of senior officials, including the chief of examination center or the institution’s principal,” a source said.
“It may be a big racket where supervisors, examiners and staff members were involved,” the source added.
Vilas Shinde, controller of examination, confirmed the issuance of new directives to colleges. After students submit answer sheets, the supervisor should draw cross lines in every blank space on the papers and also find out if the student has made some marks to identify his paper to examiners. “We have also appointed a high level committee to probe this incident. It is true that some temporary staff members working in the examination house have been caught. The answer papers taken from them are in police custody. Once the papers come back to us, we will be able to identify the students,” Shinde said.
He said, “We will call the concerned students who wrote the papers and the supervisor. The matter will be handled by the unfair means committee. They will take the final decision on the issue.”
To prevent malpractices, the university had put in place a bar code system to hide details of the students from examiners, so that the assessment is unbiased and fair.
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