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| Non-technical teachers evaluate technical papers, examinee commits suicide! | | `Enquiry finds evaluator guilty' | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 25: Even as the Minister for Information Technology Imran Raza Ansari on Tuesday said enquiry into the faulty evaluation of the paper of a Polytechnic student who committed suicide because of poor marking has been found the examiner guilty, the minister has tried to conceal the major scam in his domain.
The biggest issue, which the minister tried to cover up, is that non-technical teachers are being hired for evaluation of the technical papers by his government.
The inquiry committee constituted by Ansari, which was probing the suicide of an engineering student, who ended his life after being erroneously declared failed, recommended compulsory retirement of Mushtaq Ahmad Tiploo, senior lecturer in Government Higher Secondary School Jawahar Nagar who had evaluated the student's Physics paper. But the committee has made no mention that how come the non-technical teacher was hired for the technical job. Sources said the "examiner mafia has been mushrooming" in the Technical Education department by virtue of which non-technical teachers are hired for evaluation of papers. "Technical Education Department pays handsomely for evaluation of papers. These non-technical teachers who get financially benefitted by being hired for the job either happen to be kith and kin of ministers and bureaucrat or are given the assignment in lieu if commission," explained an insider in the Technical Education department. A prominent educationist questioned that how come a professional paper of poly-technique college was evaluated by teacher of a government school. "This was a paper of applied physics or to say engineering physics. It should have been examined by teacher who teaches in a technical institution and not someone working in a government school," noted educationist Dr Showkat Ahmed told Early Times. "How come can a teacher who has not taught the subject be made the evaluator," he asked.
Officials in the Technical Education department said the board had laid down norms that only the one who teaches the subject be hired as examiner.
Citing example of Jammu and Kashmir universities, he said the varsity never hires higher secondary teachers for evaluation of the graduate course papers of colleges. "Though it's often an MSC lecturer who teaches both at the higher secondary schools and at the colleges, it never happens that a school teacher of same qualification evaluates college papers only because he lacks requisite expertise," explained a senior official in the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education. On November 24, the Minister for Technical Education recommended retirement of the teacher who examined the papers. "The inquiry committee has submitted its report within a week. As the teacher, Tiploo, belongs to Education Department, we have recommended that he be declared 'deadwood' and given compulsory retirement from service," Technical Education Minister, Imran Reza Ansari told reporters here.
The government had ordered a time-bound inquiry to probe the suicide of Adnan Hilal, who ended his life after he found that he had been declared failed in Physics paper. Earlier this year Muhammad Adnan Hilal, a brilliant 1st year student of Kashmir Government Polytechnic, Srinagar committed suicide for the poor marking of his paper. He was accorded mere 28 marks out of 100 whereas re-examination of the paper proved that he had bagged 50 marks out of 100.
Though the Minister tried to show the "honestly" of this department, Ansari failed to reply a simple question that how come a school teacher evaluated the engineering college paper.
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