Rampant cheating at IIT Kharagpur - The true facts.

This article is to deal on mass copying charge made by again Prof Rajeev Kumar and flashed across all national daily.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Crowded-IIT-helps-cheats/Article1-633257.aspx

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-29/india/28223312_1_t-k-ghosal-copying-examination


A detailed rebuttal and fact on the same has been posted here. (LINK) But let us also give few facts, without getting into too much details to show why this news is intended to malign the institute and not true.

Quote from news #2:


"What makes copying easier is the fact that IIT-Kharagpur does not have any provision of allotting a seat to a student during an examination. A student is free to choose any seat allotted for the subject."

A blatant lie that is put here by the reporter. Did he even try to do any research before putting up this fact. Before examination each and every student is allocated seats and none allowed to sit on their own whim.


Till date Prof Kumar could not give any proof or explanation on this so called "rampant" copying. The true fact being if anyone goes through the senate meeting minutes, would get to see how every copying case is dealt with strictly. The reporters never tried to even cross check this fact.

Reporters had to just ask Mr Kumar about the number of cheating cases reported till date by HIM and they would have got some interesting information. Mr Kumar has been invigilating for years at IIT Kharagpur. And till date NOT A SINGLE CASE OF CHEATING HAS BEEN REPORTED BY RAJEEV KUMAR AT IIT KHARAGPUR. Yet he claims there's RAMPANT cheating in the institute!!!

When you read through the other LINK, you get to know more in details what his replies had been during interrogation by the IIT Administration. 

BTW this is for the reporters. You all got the feed from Mr Kumar and decided to go ahead with the article. Let me show you what his reaction would be if tomorrow you get confronted with the same. Let us post a section from a mail sent by Mr Kumar to investigating administers below and you'll see how he is going to wash his hands off. You'll be left with no source to claim for this news item. Whole email chain has already been produced at different investigation and hence now available to many.

From your covering letter, it appears that the news item, in Page-4, refers to the opinion of me. As during the Senate meeting on 27/12/10, I denied ever talking to the reporter, I hereby again categorically deny that I ever talked to the reporter.

In the last para of the same email, he again lies of being threatened. We have the whole chain of emails that happened in this discussion. Not once did any administrator threatened him. Infact they all have been talking to him in the most polite language simply asking queries. Maybe asking queries fall under "Threat" for Mr Kumar!! Let us show the last part now and disect the same.

I wish to state and re-iterate I have been threatened, many times in the past, by some of the top institute administrators who felt exposed due to my work, as a whistleblower. This may be one other attempt by those people who feel threatened of being exposed due to the issues of conflicts of interests, recently raised by me. Needless to say, I have been tenaciously working for strengthening and reforming systems, in particular IIT Kharagpur, by transparency and accountability.

Coming to the underlined red part of this mail, Mr Kumar states that he is working to reform all systems. Just one query that comes to our mind Mr Kumar. 

How come you never worked to find the Rampant Copying or any such anomalies at your Son's institute, Jadavpur Univ?? I am sure he must have told you about that institute and how clean the same was during that era. If you were so concerned about cleaning the system, why be so selective and target ONLY IIT Kharagpur that too with false claims. 

Signing off for today and leaving all you to ponder on few questions.

1. Cheating during examination is there in each and every examination across the world. But at IIT Kharagpur whenever they were caught, strict actions have been taken. Senate meeting minutes would show all this fact. Why didn't reporters try getting hold of the same to come to this conclusion??

2. Mr Rajeev Kumar claimed of rampant copying but how come he himself NEVER caught any single cheating cases though he has been invigilating for years now. Infact he even has been chief invigilator once yet no case was caught by him. 

Cheers all, have a good day!!!