Anna Univ cancels degrees of 130 students involved in exam racket
A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:04.04.2019
Anna University has cancelled the results and degrees of 130 students after an inquiry committee confirmed their involvement in a major racket during November/December 2017 exams and special arrears exam in February 2018.
“Many of them received their degree certificates and some still have a few arrears. Now, all the 130 students have to reappear for exams,” a source in the university said.
The issue came to light when a faculty member found that a student cleared 20 arrears at one go and lodged a complaint. The university then formed an inquiry committee which collected details of all the students who had cleared several arrears at one shot. “We found the top sheets in answer scripts did not match bar codes and colour codes. In some of the answer scripts, the students mentioned wrong page numbers,” a source in the inquiry committee said.
Agents allowed students to write exams outside hall
The students and staff members involved in exam-related work were summoned by the committee members and questioned. It was found that technical assistants and peons colluded with agents and allowed many students to write outside the exam hall for a ‘fee’ of ₹15,000 to ₹40,000 from each.
Earlier, to streamline the exam process, the university decided to strictly enforce the rule that mandates BE students to complete the degree course within seven. It also provided them with a chance by conducting special arrears examinations last year.
“Using this, the agents targeted students who were having many arrears,” a source said. “They took out the original answer scripts from the bundle after the exam and handed over the blank answer sheets to the candidates. In some cases, the students were handed over original answer scripts which had blank pages,” he added. Last week, the university had terminated 37 temporary staff in connection with the exam racket.
A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:04.04.2019
Anna University has cancelled the results and degrees of 130 students after an inquiry committee confirmed their involvement in a major racket during November/December 2017 exams and special arrears exam in February 2018.
“Many of them received their degree certificates and some still have a few arrears. Now, all the 130 students have to reappear for exams,” a source in the university said.
The issue came to light when a faculty member found that a student cleared 20 arrears at one go and lodged a complaint. The university then formed an inquiry committee which collected details of all the students who had cleared several arrears at one shot. “We found the top sheets in answer scripts did not match bar codes and colour codes. In some of the answer scripts, the students mentioned wrong page numbers,” a source in the inquiry committee said.
Agents allowed students to write exams outside hall
The students and staff members involved in exam-related work were summoned by the committee members and questioned. It was found that technical assistants and peons colluded with agents and allowed many students to write outside the exam hall for a ‘fee’ of ₹15,000 to ₹40,000 from each.
Earlier, to streamline the exam process, the university decided to strictly enforce the rule that mandates BE students to complete the degree course within seven. It also provided them with a chance by conducting special arrears examinations last year.
“Using this, the agents targeted students who were having many arrears,” a source said. “They took out the original answer scripts from the bundle after the exam and handed over the blank answer sheets to the candidates. In some cases, the students were handed over original answer scripts which had blank pages,” he added. Last week, the university had terminated 37 temporary staff in connection with the exam racket.
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