A day after reports about Delhi University’s third-year B.Com students being given the same question paper as students of the distance-programme were given in May, the University has decided to form a three-member committee to look into the issue.
The panel will examine the entire issue and fix responsibility, as well as suggest a situation that can be created for students who appeared for the examination. A report will be submitted within two weeks.
“Apart from an independent inquiry into this matter, reasons for repeated failure of the DU administration to ensure smooth and credible conduct of examinations needs to be investigated. The administration chooses to look the other way even though it is clear that the Examination Department has been unable to deal with the burden of coordinating, twice a year, the large-scale preparations required to ensure a foolproof conduct of the examinations for over 1.5 lakh regular students and over 4.5 lakh students of the School of Open Learning,” said Delhi University Teachers’ Association president Nandita Narain.
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“Over the past four years, question paper committees were constituted at the eleventh hour before the examinations. In addition, there are numerous blunders like question papers reaching 45 minutes late, students being forced to attempt the wrong question paper, students who are present being marked absent, wrong marks entered in mark-sheets, etc.,” added DUTA secretary Harish Khanna.