The West Bengal State University will make public the names of the seven teachers allegedly responsible for the delay in publication of Part II results and seek the government’s advice on how to penalise them.

“The names of the seven teachers responsible for the delay will be posted on our website www.wbsubregistration. org after the announcement of the Part II results on Wednesday,” Ashok Thakur, the vice-chancellor of the Barasat university, said on Tuesday.

“We could not publish the BA, BSc and BCom Part II results by September-end, as scheduled, because the seven teachers submitted evaluated answer scripts late. The head examiners concerned told me that some of the teachers had been vacationing and so could not complete the assessment on time,” Thakur said.

The seven teachers had been given 1,200 scripts, belonging to 600 students. Sources in the examination controller’s department said the last date for submission of marked scripts was September 25.

“The seven returned the scripts on October 26. Of the 1,500-odd teachers engaged for assessing around 3 lakh Part II scripts, all except the seven had met the deadline,” said an official.

The decision to act against the errant teachers follows a state government notification on October 24, asking all universities to penalise examiners who fail to submit marked scripts on time.

“The notification does not specify how the offenders have to be penalised. So we will seek the higher education department’s advice before taking any action against the seven teachers,” Thakur said.

The delay in the submission of scripts has prompted the university to overturn its decision to allow examiners to take scripts home.

“We don’t want a repeat of what has happened with Part II results. All answer scripts of the ongoing Part I exams will be subjected to spot evaluation,” the vice-chancellor said.

The university had been sticking to only spot assessment — a system in which teachers mark scripts on the campus — since its inception in 2009. This year the teachers had been given the choice between spot evaluation and marking the scripts at home.

Around 80 per cent of the teachers opted to take the scripts home, saying spot evaluation was leaving them with little time to take classes. So for the Part II exams, the authorities had adopted a mix of of both systems.