AA Khan: Decision taken

Ranchi, June 2: Ranchi University today debarred co-examiner B.N. Mahto and head examiner G.K. Srivastava, found guilty of violating examination norms at the Ranchi College evaluation centre, from all examination-related work for three and two years, respectively.

Not satisfied with this, the university has also decided to institute an inquiry committee against Mahto, a commerce teacher from J.N. College, Dhurwa.

Mahto had, instead of submitting the marks file to the head examiner Srivastava, taken the confidential examination document home. According to sources, ?He must have ulterior motives behind slipping out of the evaluation centre with the marks file.?

Srivastava, who in turn should have interrogated Mahto when he left for home, did not do anything about it.

The decision tzo debar the examiners was taken today at an emergency meeting of the examination board, presided by vice-chancellor A.A. Khan.

Asked about today?s decision, he said: ?Though we have done the punishment part by restricting the guilty from taking part in any sort of examination work, we still need to get to the bottom of things and know whether the examiners were part of some racket.?

?Besides, the findings of the inquiry will also help us fortify the evaluation process, which had once, practically not so long ago, been questionable with rampant malpractice. However, in our efforts to carve out a healthy niche for Ranchi University in the national higher education scenario, we are now determined to salvage the evaluation process from all sorts of errors,? he said.

The university had relieved the two examiners from the ongoing evaluation work yesterday, immediately after learning of the incident.

In another decision relating to the case of two B.Sc examinees, who were found writing their semester II papers outside the examination centre at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial College, Pandara, on May 29, RU decided to institute another probe into the incident.

According to sources at the university, the vice-chancellor was tipped-off about the unfair means being used at the exams by an anonymous caller, following which, Khan himself had visited the college premises and expelled the examinees.

?Since no examinee can write his paper outside the examination centre without the knowledge or even the connivance of the centre superintendent, it is important for us to know to what extent are college authorities involvement in this racket, that is if there is any,? added Khan.