Re-exam in college accused of taking bribes from students

Nagpur: After constituting an inquiry panel against Gondia’s Kirsan Mission’s College of Management, the Nagpur University has cancelled all six papers of MBA first semester held from May 12 to 18.
Board of Examination and Evaluation (BOEE) director Prafulla Sable told TOI that NU will not allow the college to re-conduct exams and it may either be held by other colleges in the nearby area or by NU itself.
“The BOEE took the decision to cancel all their papers after the bribery allegations were prima facie found to be correct and even their students had accepted it. We also received new complaints from the girl students. The BOEE would decide on holding their exams after receiving the report from the probe panel,” he said, adding that NU had all systems in place to conduct their papers.
Former NU Management Council member Mahendra Nimbarte, who blew the lid on the bribery issue by sending students’ audio clips to the BOEE director, said the teacher who demanded bribes for clearing papers was allegedly doing it at the behest of the management.
“The students told me that such practices have been rampant in the college for many years. The college has an advantage of being situated in the rural area and, therefore, hardly any monitoring is done by the university. At least now, NU should conduct a thorough inquiry not only of Kirsan, but all such colleges located in rural areas. Such unethical practices are common once you hand over the examination system to the colleges, as no one wants to fail their students,” he told TOI.
According to NU officials, many well-known academicians from the NU circles are the members of Kirsan college board of governors. It included senior academician Baban Taywade, former higher education director Archana Nerkar, and a head of NU commerce department Anant Deshmukh.
No official from Kirsan was available for comments for the second in a row.
Quoting RTI information by activist Abhay Kolarkar, TOI had reported on how NU results shot up to 99% due to online examination as students were allowed to appear from home with no proper monitoring system.
Even NUs claims of having a proctoring system had failed to stop the students from using unfair means during the papers. Despite opposition from several quarters, NU entrusted colleges to conduct postgraduate exams, as per its own officials.
The exam director, however, denied that the proctoring system was faulty stating that they had stopped the exams of many students after their server captured suspicious activities.