Parshva Bhankaria, a law student from Government Law College, Mumbai who was initially marked absent emerged as one of the toppers in Mumbai University. (ANI)
Parshva Bhankaria, a law student from Government Law College, Mumbai who was initially marked absent emerged as one of the toppers in Mumbai University. Bhakaria was marked absent in all four subjects in his sixth and final semester but after his exam papers were traced and evaluated he came out to be one of the toppers. After the assessment of the papers, his final semester score turned out to be 71.75 percent which is considered very high for a law student, as per Times Of India report. Bhankaria got his transcript a day before Diwali after making several rounds of the university. Notably, this year the Mumbai University delayed announcing the results of postgraduate and undergraduate exams. Earlier in September, even as the university was yet to declare results of 13 courses because of an unprecedented delay in the final-year undergraduate and postgraduate exams, it had come to light that the varsity ignored queries of the office of university chancellor and Governor of Maharashtra, Ch Vidyasagar Rao, Indian Express reported.
As per the report, the chancellor’s office was anticipating this delay because of the varsity’s decision to adopt an onscreen assessment process involving a time-taking scanning of more than 18 lakh answer sheets. Days before the Mumbai University asked an agency to implement the new process, the chancellor’s office wrote a letter to Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh, expressing concern over the possibility of a delay on account of the new idea.
Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao had also asked for a factual report on the issue of switching to onscreen assessment ‘at the earliest’, the reason behind the appointment of an agency and the delay in the assessment, as per students who were suspected to have skipped the exam, Indian Express added.
