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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, May 9: The Association of Mangalore University College Teachers (R) (AMUCT) has expressed its serious concern about the irregularities said to have been committed in the tabulation process of the answer paper evaluation of the final year LLB degree examination conducted in November 2008 and has condemned the development.
The incident aims at blemishing the image of Mangalore University, its conscious team of teachers, students and other educationalists, forcing the entire teaching fraternity to hang their heads in shame. Irrespective of who is involved with the scandal, they should be properly punished, the AMUCT has demanded and placed the following demands for consideration.
AMUCT Demands: Criminal cases should be registered against those involved with the tabulation irregularities and it should be ensured that they face stringent punishment. The marks cards of the involved students should be cancelled and those involved should be permanently debarred from the University examinations. AMUCT has also demanded for handing over the case to Corps of Detectives (COD). AMUCT also has sought from the University, explanation for having given a decent burial to a similar case in 2003.
There is suspicion that such scandals would have been engineered at different points of time by different individuals, AMUCT said and demanded for conducting a detailed investigation into all the examination-related irregularities through a fact-finding committee comprising of scholars. It has asked as to what yardsticks had been followed while allotting works like tabulation of mark cards, revaluation etc., and why normally the same team takes interest in the same job year after year. It has demanded the University to keep those involved with the scandal away from the examination-related duties.
AMUCT office bearers also informed at a press conference held at the Press Club here that it will approach organiations like the Lokayukta, Human Rights Commission etc., apart from agitating during the central evaluation process, if the University fails to act against the guilty.
AMUCT president Jostline Lobo, general secretary Purushottam KV and Federation of University and College Teachers Association of Karnataka president A M Narahari were present at the press conference.