JUDGEMENT
Arijit Pasayat, J. -
(1.)Leave granted.
(2.)Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Orissa High Court. While holding that there was no provision under any rule or regulations of the Appellant-Board for revaluation, a sum of Rs. 20,000/- was awarded for wrong intimation about the total marks actually received by the respondent No. 1.
(3.)Background facts in a nutshell are as follows:
Respondent No. 1 appeared at the High School Certificate Examination-2004 conducted by the appellant-board. Result of the said examination was published on 25.6.2004. Initially, respondent No. 1 was declared to have passed in the 1st Division securing 654 marks out of 750 marks. Respondent No. 1 made a representation pointing out that the marks appear to have been wrongly mentioned in the marks sheet. Answer scripts were verified, and it was found that the marks awarded in one paper i.e. SSH were wrongly shown as 35 though respondent No. 1 had really secured 65 marks. It was pointed out that the mistake occurred due to the wrong entry made in the computer. The error was rectified in the Tabulation Register and fresh marks sheet was issued on 7.7.2004. The revised marks sheet was sent to the Zonal Officer, at Balasore for onward transmission to the Headmaster, N.S. Police High School where the petitioner had prosecuted studies. In September, 2004 respondent No. 1 filed writ petition. It is to be noted that Board had constituted a Committee pursuant to the direction given in Bismaya Mohantys case (supra). The cut off mark was fixed at 682. As at that time the respondent No. 1s marks were taken to be 654, his papers were not examined by the Committee. As the candidate had deposited requisite fees for checking of addition of marks, the exercise was undertaken and it was noted that in the SSH paper he had secured 71 and not 65 as was posted in the cover page. In other words, the actual marks secured by the candidate were 690 and not 654 as was originally recorded.