Get police to track lost answer sheets, Rajasthan info panel tells school

Follows RTI plea of candidate declared absent in NIOS exam

The Rajasthan State Information Commission has directed a government school in Chittorgarh district to get the help of the police to trace a bundle of 197 answer sheets missing since 2018. The Commission’s order followed an RTI application to the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) from a woman candidate seeking her answer sheet after she was shown as absent in a Diploma in Elementary Education examination held in December 2018.

The examinee complained that she had been asking for a copy of her answer sheet for a long time, but neither the organising institute nor the Government Senior Secondary School, Senthi, where the exam was conducted, was giving a satisfactory reply. Instead, she was marked as absent in a subject in the examination.

The school management maintained that two bundles of answer sheets were handed over to the post office for sending them to NIOS. Though the post office informed the school that the bundles were delivered to the NIOS on December 28, 2018, the candidate was shown as absent in the said paper in the results announced subsequently.