NTR varsity to re-evaluate answer sheets

HYDERABAD:The High Court on Monday directed NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS), AP to conduct manual re-evaluation of answer sheets of about 50 post-graduate medical students who appeared for the examinations held in May-June 2017. The court made it clear that the university shall not conduct supplementary examinations without completing the said re-evaluation.

Justice A Ramalingeswara Rao was passing this order in batch petitions by Dr K Keerthi and others who challenged the digital evaluation of answer sheets by the varsity and not permitting them to verify their answer sheets personally at the time of re-totalling.  Advocate Kiran Tirumalasetti, appearing for some of the petitioners, told the court that when the very same examination was held earlier, either in diploma or PG degree courses, answer scripts used to be corrected manually and when they were manually evaluated, the students had a right to verify the total marks.

When the varsity introduced digital evaluation of answer sheets for the earlier batch, the court found some discrepancies in the mechanism and directed the university authorities concerned to re-evaluate the answer sheets of those petitioners who had moved the court earlier, he noted.