The Anna University has launched a probe into the alleged exam marks racket in the university at a time when a letter, allegedly written by a senior faculty member, is doing the rounds blaming vice-chancellor Prof. P. Mannar Jawahar for the scam.
The issue came to light when the faculty who allegedly evaluated the answer scripts of some influential students wrote to the chief minister’s special cell about the scam.
Meanwhile an anonymous letter believed to have been written by a senior faculty member in the university blamed university vice-chancellor Prof. P. Mannar Jawahar for the scam. The faculty member claimed that he had given a copy of an anonymous letter he had received about one of the dean’s involvement in the scam, to the present controller of examination Dr M. Venkatesan and additional controller of examinations Dr P. Narayanasamy.
“The faculty member from Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) had re-valued 18 subjects in a single day just a few days before the start of the semester examinations. He has given more than 50/60 marks for all the 18 subjects to f one student. The dean had asked the person, under the instructions of the V-C, to re-value the papers of a CEG student by an MIT staff,” the letter claimed.
When this correspondent asked the vice-chancellor for his comments about the scam and the anonymous letter, he said that the university had launched a probe to look into the issue.