pune jolted by the recent answer sheet rewriting scam involving a peon at fergusson college the savitribai phule pune university sppu has decided to introduce an answer sheet tracking system to prevent a repeat of such irregularities as soon as students submit their annual exam answer sheets to the invigilator the papers will be tracked from the exam centre to the subcentre and to the university the tracking system will initially be implemented for senior colleges a peon working at fergusson college was recently arrested for allegedly accepting money from six students of bsc computers to allow them to rewrite their answer papers he had taken the answer sheets out of the common assessment programme cap centre at the college and given them to the studentsas part of the tracking system every packet of answer sheets will contain a small acrylic dot which will be tracked through the global positioning system gps once invigilators collect answer sheets from students they insert them in a packet these packets will now be sealed the seals will contain a fibre dot which is mainly tamper proof resistant to any type of climate and can be used for the tracking system the technology is at present in use in petroleum and other sectors aditya abhyankar dean of the faculty of technology at sppu saidabhyankar who is the principal investigator of the project said that once the packet is sealed in the exam hall it will be tracked for its entire journey until the seal is broken the system will be able to provide oneminute updates on the location of the packets the fibre dot will have a transmitter as well as a receiver as a result it cannot be tampered with there cannot be any compromise on security and the system can produce a complete report from the origin to its destination he addedabhyankar said a packet would stop being tracked only once the cap supervisor signs it and the seal is broken the system would generate a report about the packets duration of travel route map and whether it had been tampered with in any waythe university had conducted the bsc computers examination in march and april this year fergusson college had been assigned as the cap centre for the correction of answer sheets of students from different colleges the six students who thought they had performed poorly in the examination allegedly approached the college peon to rewrite their papers the students rewrote the answers and gave the answer sheets to the peon who was going to put them back at the cap centre but he failed to keep the sheets back in place due to some reasons when the university declared the results the six students failed they were marked absent in the mark sheets though they had been marked present at the examination hall the cap authorities came to the conclusion that the answer sheets were deposited at the cap centre but had not been assessed after the incident was revealed