Sakshi Trust "RTI"

Faulty evaluation can now land examiners in trouble. Students can use
Right to Information (RTI) Act to see the evaluated answer-copies and
file objections. A student of the Lucknow University has lodged
complaint with the controller of examinations raising questions over
the allotment of marks. The university authorities, however, said
that the student was caught using unfair means. He is now creating
unnecessary problems.

Abhishek Dwivedi, a student of law three years course, stated in his
complaint that the examiner has not evaluated his answer-copies
properly. He told TOI that although his answers were correct but he
was awarded average numbers by the examiner. "All my short answer
type questions were correct. Ideally, I should have been given full
marks. But in most of the papers, the examiner allotted me half of
the total marks earmarked for the particular question," he claimed.

Abhishek got to know about the alleged anomalies in the evaluation
when he saw his answer-copies recently on the directives of the State
Information Commission (SIC). Initially, the university authorities
had rejected Abhishek's application under RTI for showing his answer-
copies of the semester II examinations. He, however, approached SIC
and got a decision in his favour. This was the first time in the
Lucknow University that a student has been shown answer-copies under
RTI Act.

Interestingly, the student has been accused by the university
authorities of using unfair means in the examinations. Controller of
examinations RBS Verma said that the student was caught copying in
one of the papers. "We have shown him the answer-copies in compliance
of SIC orders. If the student has objections against allotment of
marks, then he will have to approach the court as there are no
provisions of re-evaluation in the university rule book," he said.

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