TSBIE fails to learn from mistakes

Hyderabad: If the goings-on in Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) are of any indication there is no end to the troubles being faced by students in the aftermath of the intermediate results fiasco.

None other than Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had saved the Board from falling into complete disgrace.

However, the Board seems to have been falling back on its old habits while dealing with the examination results and the students.

It may be mentioned here that the Board had been in constant denial mode of any irregularities or shortcomings in the publication of the Intermediate Public Examination (IPE) results for the academic year ending 2019.

Speaking to The Hans India, a senior official from the Telangana State Higher Education Department (SHED) said, the TSBIE officials were in a denial mode right from the time complaints started pouring in about the goof ups in the publication of results.

This is in quite a contrast to what the senior officials of the Osmania University had done. The OU officials had come out openly and admitted their mistake when thousands of BSc examination answer-scripts were gutted down in a fire accident.

This helped the university defuses the situation at the right time and preventing the issue from turning into any major controversy.

The university resolved the issue by re-conducting the examination for all the students of the BSc. However, the Board refused to admit its mistakes and taking responsibility.

This made the issue snowball into a law and order problem giving sleepless nights to the students and their parents for the last two months.

The Board was in embarrassing condition when the three-member committee appointed by the State government had nailed it for negligence on its part along with a software firm for the IPE results fiasco.

Sources in the Board said that some mistakes had occurred while uploading of the marks of students after the re-verification process "due to the data entry errors".

The case of Anamika was one of such cases in which the Board had claimed it had inadvertently uploaded that the student had got 48 marks in Telugu- I and retracted the same by claiming that she had got only 20 marks.

However, the continuous saga of mistakes on the part of the Board is eroding its credibility. On the top of it, the Board has been washing its hands off by asking the students to come to its office for getting their mark lists corrected in case of any mistakes surfaced.

"It is like as if the Board wanted to continue to do mistakes but it is the students who have the burden to get them corrected. It is not the way a Board should deal with the students," said a senior official from TSHED.