32nd Meeting of Academic Council - IGNOU

Director, School of Humanities should fix responsibility for
the error which has caused inconvenience to learner and
problems for the University.
ITEM NO. 14.20 TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE
CANCELLATION OF DEGREES AWARDED TO
MCA STUDENTS INADVERTENTLY IN 16 TH
CONVOCATION.
ACSC 14.20.1
Dr. Srikant Mohapatra, Registrar, SRE informed the
members that in June 2004 the Division detected tampering
of the computer records for the awards of December 2003
TEE in respect of some of the BCA/MCA students.. A
complaint was lodged with the police promptly. However,
the software used by the Division automatically transfers the
enrollment number of a candidate once he/she clears all
courses in the given programme, to the list of successful
candidates for Convocation. When tempering of the records
was discovered, the enrollment numbers of suspected
students in BCA programme were deleted from the
convocation list but inadvertently this skipped attention and
was not done in the case of 39 MCA students and 5
BCA/MCA Integrated Programme students. A list of
students is placed at Appendix –6.
ACSC 14.20.2
The Vice-Chancellor expressed serious concern and advised
that there should be no such lapse as it is intimately
connected to the credibility of the evaluation process.
ACSC 14.20.3 The Registrar, SRE proposed that the degrees awarded to 31
students of MCA and 5 students of BCA/MCA Integrated
Mode be cancelled and the degrees of 8 students be
modified by changing the TEE as June 2004 instead of
December 2003. The students concerned will be advised to
return the degrees awarded to them in the 16 th Convocation
of the University for necessary action.