CU tries to solve mystery of the lone missing answer script
Times of India | 13 November 2024
Kolkata: The mystery of the lone missing paper from the MA Bengali first-semester, which disappeared from a bundle of answer scripts, has foxed the Calcutta University authority that is probing the missing answer scripts. The university has also put an app-cab driver who carried 65 answer scripts to the CU's College Street campus under lens.
It was found that in a packet containing multiple answer scripts, only one went missing while the rest remained intact. The university has formed an inquiry committee to determine what has actually happened and who is responsible for this. The committee, which will submit its report soon, will examine at which point the answer script disappeared — from the exam hall or the examiner's end who checked the papers. The university has decided to call the college principal, the centre-in-charge, the invigilator as well as the examiner who checked the papers and submitted them to the university.
A CU official said: "The lone script is the major concern for us, which is very strange. How could a single script go missing? Where did the answer script go missing — was it a fault of the invigilator of the centre who collected scripts after the exam was over or the examiner who checked the paper? We need to find this first."
Around 120 MA Bengali first-semester answer scripts went missing from three examiners of three colleges — one from South 24 Parganas, one from a south Kolkata college and another from a north Kolkata college.
On the other hand, in the case of 65 lost answer scripts, CU has already spoken to the examiner and the coordinator, who claimed that the answer scripts were submitted but there was no receipt copy for them. Sources said, the university took technical support to determine whether any app cab entered the university premises on the day that the examiner and the coordinator claimed the answer scripts were sent to the controller section. Registrar Debasis Das said: "The internal investigation is underway and every aspect is being examined."
However, the university authority is focusing mainly on two city colleges and looking into all the aspects to get to the root of the mystery. Of these, 54 scripts were burnt at an examiner's home and the examiner deposited the burnt scripts to the police. The South 24 Parganas college has been conducting an internal probe against it.