Siliguri, Aug. 23:At a time when the admission process in almost all colleges in the region is over, Nibedita Dasgupta, a student of Pushparani Roy Memorial High School in Kurseong, is yet to get her results.

Her friends are eagerly waiting for college to begin, but she is at a loss as to what the future holds for her.

When the results were declared and marksheets issued in July, Nibedita’s results were withheld by the West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education.

Both she and her school authorities are perplexed as to what the council is planning to do about her results.

“On July 27, we received the marksheets and certificates of the higher secondary exams. On opening the packet, we found that it did not contain Nibedita Dasgupta’s marksheet. The summary statement or abstract sheet had RWAC written against her name, which means result withheld due to non-correction of the admit card. It could not be understood how the question of correcting her admit card arose, since it had no mistakes and neither the student nor the school had appealed for any correction,” said Upen Rai, the teacher-in-charge of the school.

The school authorities had written to the council on August 5, but are yet to receive a reply from it.

“I wanted to study B Sc. in bio-science, but now that colleges have closed their admissions I don’t think I will be able to do so this year. I don’t know if I have passed the exam and my fear is not just about losing a year but spoiling my whole career,” she said.

Nibedita’s fear is aggravated by the fact that as many as six students of the school, who had taken the higher secondary exams in 2003, have reportedly not yet got their marksheets. “When the problem of last year’s students still continues, how can I expect a speedy solution in my case,” she said.

“Last year, six mark-sheets were missing from the packet that was sent by the council. The cover stated that marksheets of candidates with serial numbers from 42 to 86 were enclosed. However, the envelope did not contain the marksheets of candidates with serial numbers from 58 to 63. We wrote to the council a number of times but till date we have heard nothing,” Rai said.

Of the six students, only Gopal Rai of had passed the exams, which was reflected in the summary sheet. Two students had secured compartmental marks in English and the rest failed.

“Gopal's pass certificate has come, but there is no sign of his marksheet. After losing a year due to the goof-up, he has applied for a duplicate mark sheet so that he can seek admission to a college,” Rai added.

About Nibedita’s case, Malay Roy, secretary of the council’s regional office, said: “There must have been some kind of anomaly in the admit card. If the candidate approaches our regional office and gets her admit card verified, she will be issued a mark-sheet within three days.”

He, however, denied last year’s incident. “Such a thing has not happened. The school authorities never informed us about any missing marksheets.”