The Bangalore University (BU) has decided to hand over a part of the answer scripts of the undergraduate distance education programmes that have been hit by the ‘cash for marks’ scam to the CID.
These are answer scripts which have a variation of over 15 per cent in marks between the first and second evaluations. They will be handed over to the CID for further investigation.
The revaluation of answer sheets of the annual exams for the undergraduate distance education programmes, held in December 2013, are still going on.
Announcing the university’s decision on Tuesday, Registrar (Evaluation) Ningegowda K.N., said that the conditional results, however, will be announced in a couple of days, and that it will be subject to the outcome of the CID investigation. “The university’s internal committee has decided to hand over the scripts that have been found with large scale variations in scores.”
BU’s syndicate had, in May, decided to put off the announcement of results after the unearthing of the scam involving ‘agents’ colluding with a former syndicate member, university officials and invigilators to increase the marks of students, who were willing to pay. The university also decided to subject all the answer scripts to fresh evaluation.
The police, who questioned university officials, including a former syndicate member, said the accused had tampered with the marks while they were being fed into the computer for final printing, or by inserting additional sheets with the correct answers in answer scripts after gaining access to the strong room where the scripts were kept.
Changes in futureStung by the malpractices, the BU administration has decided to streamline the distance education admissions, exams and valuation on par with the regular courses. “The admissions, exams and valuation will be conducted immediately after they are completed for the regular courses. Valuation will be done by the same evaluators, who are in charge of regular courses,” the Registrar said.
