Mumbai University sets inquiry against two colleges for issuing sets of original marksheets

Amid the pandemic, the university’s exam section sent mark sheets and convocation certificates for both graduating batches to the Kalyan college.

University of Mumbai exam section is under the limelight for issuing two sets of original mark sheets to 90 final-year students of a BSc (hospitality studies) course. The University has now initiated an inquiry related to this serious irregularity, while both the colleges involved are blaming each other.

As per the reports, BSc students of the 3-year course from Bhayander’s Mumbai College of Hotel Management were enrolled in the varsity’s record from Kalyan’s Holy Maria College of Science & Technology, as the former had no university affiliation. 50 students were enrolled to the first year in 2017-18, 40 others in 2018-19 in the same manner. However, the arrangement between the two colleges was called off later as the monetary benefit promised by the Bhayander college was not fulfilled, claimed Maria Fernandes, president of the Kalyan college.

Amid the pandemic, the university’s exam section sent mark sheets and convocation certificates for both graduating batches to the Kalyan college.

“The principal (of the Bhyander college) cut us off completely after he got affiliation later,” said Fernandes, who did not release the mark sheets to students over the pending dues. When a student approached the university, the tie-up between the colleges came into the limelight.
In the meantime, the Bhayander college’s principal, Dilip Mahadik, wrote to the university, for the mark sheets and a separate set was sent to him too. Mahadik claimed he was the in-charge principal of the Kalyan college. “Mrs. Fernandes got the mark sheets at her home and did not give them to students. As students were desperate for jobs and visas, I wrote to the university to issue fresh mark sheets and gave an undertaking to return the other set. I’ve written to her, asking her to return the documents…,” he said.

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