Pune: ABVP Stages Protest Against Examination Department of SPPU

The examination department failed to provide timely photocopies of answer sheets to students on request.

27 April 2024

By Khushi Maheshwari

Students are oftentimes not satisfied by the marks they have received in examinations, and even more so, those who have backlogs in their examination almost always wish to get them re-evaluated so as to rule out any possibility of error from the evaluator’s side. 

Before mentally preparing themselves to write the same paper the next year, they are prompted to know what mistakes they have made, and therefore often put in requests to view photocopies of their answer sheets before the next semester commences. 

In case students are required to write an exam again, most universities mandate adding those subjects to the succeeding semester’s examination form. 

Students of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) suffered neglect at the hands of the examination department when they were not provided with photocopies of their answer sheets after results of the preceding semester were declared. It has been almost three months since they have applied for the photocopies and are yet to receive them even now. 

Only a handful of students were provided with photocopies, and those too were not re-evaluated. As a result, irrespective of the deadline having passed for filling the examination form for the next session, students continue to struggle due to lack of sincerity on the examination department’s part in providing them with the re-evaluated answer sheets from the preceding semester’s examination. 

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) retaliated by staging a protest in the examination department itself. Even after the student-run organisation’s attempts at communication with the department, their efforts to release statements from the side of the examination department had come to no avail. 

Therefore, ABVP opted for an aggressive approach and protested in the exam department while demanding immediate receipts of photocopies for the students who have applied, prompt fulfilment of the re-evaluation process and release of results for those awaiting re-evaluation. Moreover, the ABVP has also stressed on relieving the fee for re-evaluation of those subjects in which the students ended up passing after the re-evaluation was done. 

ABVP’ Maharashtra Minister Anil Thombare highlighted how a university which was revered as the Oxford of the East is seriously lagging behind by failing to provide its students with something as fundamental as revaluation results. Furthermore, Harshvardhan Harpude, the Pune Minister of the organisation, issued a warning saying that if the examination department fails to deliver the required even now, ABVP will initiate a serious movement against it, throwing light on the ineptitude of the department.