Nagpur: After glitches during online final year examinations, the
Nagpur University is now grappling with delay in results as few of its officials from Exam Section, including senior ones, have contracted Covid-19.
The development has also led to delay in conducting re-exams of some subjects like MA, MCom, MSc and others which NU had planned in the first week of this month.
Pro-vice chancellor Sanjay Dudhe said only one of their top officials had contracted the disease while others were from Promarc which was looking after exams and results work. “Obviously, there will be a slight delay. But the work hasn’t stopped, as remaining employees are working overtime to bring out the results. We are doing our best to expedite the process,” he told TOI.
A couple of months back, about 8-10 employees from exam Section were infected with Covid-19. One of the staffers also lost his life after suffering a massive cardiac arrest.
Dudhe added that majority of the employees were tested after the initial cases. “In the absence of our director, I am looking after his work. We all are overburdened. We leave home at 10am but there’s no guarantee when we will return. We are trying to declare results as early as possible so that postgraduate admissions cane be started,” he said.
A Promarc official told TOI that work was slightly affected as two of its senior staffers were infected along with others. “All the infected employees are in home isolation and taking rest, as they had a hectic schedule last month due to online exams. Our work hasn’t stopped at any moment,” said the official.
The official said there was delay as colleges failed to send internal and practical marks. “Adding marks is a complicated process, as those are added in the mark-list as per the formulae, confirmed with NU records in its tabulation register (TR) and then re-checked twice or thrice to remove any errors. There are many categories like regular, former, failure and ex-students which complicates the process,” he said.
A senior NU official said the colleges had jumbled the marks along with names, roll numbers of its students. “Now, the process is consuming more time. We are correcting those records first before declaring the results,” he said.