Girl marked absent for exam she took

NEW DELHI: Thanks to the lackadaisical attitude of the Delhi University (DU), a student who had appeared for her subsidiary paper in Part-I exams has been marked ‘absent’ on the marksheet. As the college passed the buck to the university, the latter is still processing the application of the student asking for rectification. If the matter doesn’t get resolved, the aggrieved student has to re-appear for the paper.
Yogi Bajaj, a first-year English (H) student of Dyal Singh College (E), who had appeared for her subsidiary paper, Reading Gandhi, on April 14, was stunned to see ‘A’ on her marksheet three months later.Since then, she has been running from pillar to post to get the error rectified, but is yet to see action. The attendance sheet (TOI has a copy of it) on which she signed on the exam day also clearly shows her signature but is not ‘adequate’ proof for the university to get things done.
"I was shocked to see the absent mark on the marksheet, I immediately approached the college officials, who, after two months, stated that this is not an error on their part. So, I submitted the application to examinations department on south campus in October. However, I am yet to get any reply," said a distressed Bajaj, whose roll number was 7072951 in the exam.
College principal Deepak Malhotra, said: "Our job is to conduct the examination. After the exams get over, we submit all the answer scripts along with the attendance sheet. We have done the same in this paper too. Since there was lot of pressure on the university to announce the results on time, so this must have caused the error."
University officials, however, said that the application has been processed. "We have put the absent mark because we didn’t get the marks obtained by the student in the specific paper. We are processing the request for rectification," said deputy controller of examinations (south campus) B Raja Rajan.
Interestingly, a student whose roll number was next to her in the attendance sheet was absent for the paper, and chances are that Yogi’s marks have got transferred to the other person, while Yogi was marked was absent. Students’ RTI activists group, Josh, had initiated a campaign called, "Its’ the question of your answers," last year on campus demanding the university to show the evaluated answer scripts.
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