Bengaluru, DHNS: Students had complained of discrepancy in results on private portals. To avoid the confusion that prevailed after erroneous II PU results were published on private web portals last year, the PU department may host the results only on its official website or on other government department websites.

Amid confusion over faulty evaluation of II PU answer scripts and wrong results last year, students also complained of discrepancies in results published on various websites.

Primary and?Secondary Education?Minister Kimmane Rathnakar had also claimed to have filed a first information report (FIR) against at least two private web portals for publishing erroneous results.

Pallavi Akurathi, director, Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) said: “We may host the results only on our own websites or on websites of departments like the Department of Collegiate Education (DCE), Department of Public Instruction (DPI) or the National Informatics Centre.”

Akurathi added that the matter would be discussed with the government as well as the departments concerned.

“The matter will be taken up with higher authorities,’’ she said, expressing confidence that the proposal would be approved.

With over 6 lakh students appearing for the exam, the portal may crash due to too much traffic on the PU department website. To prevent this, the department is keeping the option of hosting results on other government websites open. Officials, however, said that such issues would be taken care of.

Principal, New Horizon PU College, Edward Christopher, said hosting results only on the department’s website would not make any difference.

“Once the results are declared, the department sends them to each college, which will then display the results,” said Christopher.

Shishir G, a first year engineering student, faced a harrowing time last year when results were declared.

“Students will benefit since there will be no ambiguity. There will be portals which would show wrong results and many of them even declare that they are not responsible for wrong information. If results are declared on government websites, they can be held accountable,” he said.

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