by rajeevkrkozhikode the kerala state audit department has come down heavily on the calicut university for letting college teachers who had made serious errors in evaluation of answer sheets go scot free including in a case where a btech students mark saw an increase by 3500 from 0 to 355 marks on revaluation the audit report said the varsity did not take any action against the teachers who committed serious lapses in evaluation of answer sheets of btech examination held during the academic year 201617it stated that a student who was initially awarded zero mark by a teacher got 355 marks on revaluation also in the same examination the marks of five other students saw an increase in the range of 35 to 1666 the report states though the varsity syndicate examination standing committee summoned the three examiners responsible for the lapses it did not take any action against them even though the pareeksha bhavan had recommended action against the teacher who had given zero mark to the studentof the other two teachers one gave a flimsy explanation that it was the misreading of a question which resulted in the error the other teacher said sorry for the lapse and promised that it wont be repeated the audit report saidthe audit report states that such dereliction of duty by college teachers was a grave injustice to studentsthe mental distress the student who had got zero mark despite actually having pass mark is a blot to the examination system still the varsity administration and the standing committee was seen eager to protect the erring teachers the report saidthe audit wing has also asked the varsity to approach the state government for action against the erring teacher it has also directed the varsity to frame guidelines on disciplinary action to be taken against such erring teachers the other recommendations submitted include conducting surprise inspections at centralised evaluation camps and installing cctv cameras to ensure teacher attendance at the camps an official with the audit wing said the syndicate was shying away from taking action against teachers as it doesnt want to antagonise teacher unionsmeanwhile the convenor of the current syndicate examination standing committee which had assumed office in june 2017 c l joshy said the varsity had limitations in taking action against college teachers as 75 of the examiners are from self financing colleges over which the varsity has little controlmost of the teachers are appointed by selffinancing colleges on a contract basis making it difficult for the varsity to take any action against them even if we bar them from examination related duty it will prove to be a blessing in disguise for them as many teachers are not keen to attend it he said