Mumbai : A week after several hundred BCom students were forced to run from one examination centre to another just an hour before their semester examination, no official inquiry has been ordered to find those responsible for the hall ticket confusion.
A senior officer from the examination department said: “We have not received any order to appoint a committee to find out who failed to execute their duty which caused inconvenience to hundreds of students. We have been waiting for a copy of order.”
Earlier last Tuesday, scores of fifth semester B Com (75:25 pattern) students got a nasty shock when they reached their examinations centres as mentioned in their respective hall tickets as the centres had been changed.
The University of Mumbai, in a written apology, had said the examination center mentioned on students’ hall tickets and the actual seating arrangement published on the university website were not matching. Seat numbers 100001 to 1006134 and 1068692 to 1070446 were mismatched.
Talking to the media, university officials had said that a committee had been appointed to inquire into the matter and post inquiry, appropriate action will be taken against the culprit who failed to execute his duties properly.
A university official admitted in-principle that prima facie it was a mistake on account of a third-party organisation which is entrusted to make online examination arrangements and generate hall tickets on behalf of the university.
He said: “For the record, it is collective failure of the university. The university cannot take action against any one particular person for a mistake since we need third-party organisations to carry out our day-to-day work.”
