Error forces Goa board to recall Class 12 mark
sheets
Saturday May 21, 2011 07:40:16 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: Over 12,000 Class 12 students have been left in
a lurch after the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary
Education (GBSHE) withdrew their mark sheets, claiming there were
"errors in some cases".
The opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has demanded the
resignation of GBSHE officials as well as Education Minister
Atanasio Monserrate over the scandal, which it claimed has put the
future of students in a "quandary".
"There was a computer software error, because of which the update
of marks showed discrepancies, between the marks submitted and
printed. Once we receive all the mark sheets, we will correct the
errors and re-issue the results once again," GBSHE chairman Mervyn
D'Souza told reporters.
More than 12,000 students in the arts, science and commerce
streams got a rude shock after the GBSHE late Friday instructed
all schools and students to return their original mark sheets back
to the authority for correction.
"The entrance to medical courses is just days away. This has
completely upset my son's mental state. He has to submit the mark
sheet and we don't know when we will get the correct mark sheet
now," said Raghuveer Naik, whose son Rajesh gave his Class 12
examination in the science stream.
State BJP president Laxmikant Parsenkar said that the "errors"
were not computer generated but a result of the gross negligence
on the part of the GBSHE, which functions as a semi-autonomous
entity.
"The education minister must resign and the education department
officers who were responsible for this mistake cannot be spared.
(Education minister) Monserrate cannot play with the lives and
future of children like this," Parsenkar said.
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