Despite a decade of right to information regime in Rajasthan, state-run universities are resorting to every trick in the book to keep their systems away from public scrutiny.
Six months after the Supreme Court upheld that answer sheets should be shown to students under the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005 and missives from the Rajasthan High Court and Information Commission, both Rajasthan University and the Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, are yet to throw answer sheets open to students. Meanwhile, the fate of 800 RTI applications asking for inspection/photocopies of answer sheets in the RTU last year and an unknown number in the RU hangs fire.
In a reply, dated December 1, 2011, to an RTI application asking to provide certified copies of the B.Tech ordinances, the RTU informed that “the ordinances were under consideration”. However, in a reply to another RTI application on the same question 20 days later, the RTU replied, “no such ordinances have been passed”. A similar question raised in an RTI application filed in January this year has not received a reply at all.
When asked why the varsity was giving conflicting answers, Vice-Chancellor RP Yadav said, “As of now we are following the Rajasthan University ordinances and there are no separate ordinances for B.Tech. However, a number of changes to the entire Conduct Rules are under consideration, including matters with regard to award of degree, number of attempts given to students, format of exam forms, enrollment, revaluation rules and showing of answer sheets to students.”
The RTU, however, is silent in its reply to the RTI application asking for a copy of the document showing that RTU is following the RU ordinances. State universities are blatantly disregarding provisions of the RTI Act and misleading student.
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Source: Akhil Nahta, Campus Reporter, Rajasthan
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