The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Telangana unit has demanded a probe by a sitting High Court judge into the Intermediate results imbroglio to punish the guilty.
Party president K. Laxman on Tuesday also called upon the government to give a one-time waiver of fee towards requests for recounting, revaluation and copies of answer scripts.
He said a special cell should be constituted to address the grievances of students and effect redressal on a war-footing.
Memorandum submitted
In a memorandum submitted to Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi, he said a comprehensive third party audit was vital every year to analyse the quality of evaluation, and to initiate course correction in the light of the major a goof-up by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE).
Accusing the BIE officials of trying to ‘play-down’ the magnitude of failures, and pass on the blame to a ‘few evaluators’, Mr. Laxman took severe objection to the attempts to “intimidate agitating parents and students”. The government should issue an unconditional apology for “traumatising scores of families”, he said.
Fair evaluation
He also pointed to reports expressing doubts over the capability of a private agency in handling the results and how errors had crept in despite prior intimation by experts from the JNTU. He added that invigilators were given 40 to 65 scripts each day instead of the stipulated 30 papers, which had hit fair evaluation. The BJP leader criticised the BIE officials for stating that ‘mass hysteria’ was leading to suicides.
The attempts of Education Minister Jagadeeshwar Reddy and others to pass off the entire episode as a “minor lapse” is condemnable, so is the “high-handedness” of the police in dealing with the protesting students, parents, organisations and political parties.
The BJP president termed the Intermediate exam as a ‘biggest scam’ in the newly-formed Telangana State and wondered why Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was silent over the issue.
