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Merit Trac assessed answer sheets before signing a contract according to opposition leaders

NCP MLA Ajit Pawar mocked the ruling government for forming a committee to scrutinise online assessment

Merit Trac assessed answer sheets before signing a contract according to opposition leaders
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It has been alleged that Mumbai University handed the authority to Bengaluru-based information technology firm Merit Trac Services Pvt. Ltd before signing a contract. However, Ravindra Waikar, State Minister for Higher Education replied that the university never signed a contract with the firm, in a winter session of Maharashtra Assembly. Waikar replied to the question raised by the Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) Atul Bhatkhalkar who spoke about the university’s infamous online assessment goof up.

A three-member committee will be formed under chief secretary of Information and Technology who will submit the report in three months. Once the report is ready, the state government will make a decision,” Ravindra Waikar, State Minister for Higher Education.

However, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA and former CM Ajit Pawar mocked Waikar saying that now there is no use of forming a committee as lakhs of students have already suffered. University should have taken preventive measures while signing the contract and the founder of the company should be prosecuted, said Pawar.

Ajit Pawar added that if state education minister is guilty then the ruling government should take action against him as well. Meanwhile, Congress MLA Nitesh Rane asked if the teacher can check papers manually to which Waikar replied that online assessment was introduced to bring in the transparency.

The leader of Opposition Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil demanded vice-chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh should be booked for a criminal offence. State education minister Vinod Tawde assured that guilty will not be spared and will be punished.

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