Schoolteacher alters his 1986 marksheet

SURAT: The Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) has found that a schoolteacher had increased his total marks by 100 by just altering a digit in his 1986 marksheet. The university had received a request from GayatriVidyalaya, Gotri, Vadodara earlier this month asking for verification of its teacher Amrut Patel's marksheet. Patel had graduated in arts stream in 1986.
Patel had submitted a photocopy of his marksheet to the school where he was employed. He had raised his marks in the history subject to 352. The university records showed that Patel had only got 252 marks. Patel had altered the marks in the photocopy and had written 3 in place of 2.
School and university authorities revealed that Patel had edited the marksheet's photocopy in such a manner that it is difficult to identify the editing. When the school authorities asked Patel to submit his original marksheet, he was evasive.
VNSGU authorities informed that in 1980s the university used to issue typed marksheets. The marksheet was not laminated and thus it was possible for someone to alter the marks. "If the teacher had lost his original marksheet, he could have approached the university for a duplicate marksheet. He did not have good intentions," a senior university official said.
The university has written to the school concerned giving details about the history subject marks and the alteration in the total marks by the teacher. The teacher had also changed his class. He altered it from Pass to Second class in the marksheet.