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Student to get Rs. 50,000 compensation

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI Dec. 10. In a judgment delivered by the Chittoor District Consumer Forum, the Board of Intermediate Education was asked to pay a compensation of Rs.50,000 within six weeks to a candidate for its `deficient service' which cost him his selection for the medical stream in the EAMCET-1999. The details of the case is that Reddy Basha of Yellamanda village and a student of Govt. Junior College, Piler, passed the Intermediate examination, but to his shock received a provisional mark list which said that he secured only 16 marks in Botony though he secured 814 out of 1000. Even in the re-counting, the Board confirmed the same marks in his Botony paper. In the meantime, confident of getting good marks in Botony in the recounting which he sought, he appeared for the EAMCET-99 exam and even secured a good rank. But when he received the regular mark statement, it showed that he secured 57 out of 60 in Botony. As by that time the counselling for the EAMCET was also closed, he could not attend it and `lost one precious year for no fault of his' as the Forum President, P.Ramachandra Reddy himself observed delivering the verdict in his case. He found the Intermediate Board guilty of `deficiency of service' and ordered payment of compensation to the student.

Bank fined

In another case, the same judge along with two members, Venkateswarlu and Sujata Devi representing the bench, levied a fine of Rs.10,000 on the UCO Bank, Tirupati branch whose `negligent attitude' made a woman lose twice her chances of getting a government job.

K.Parvathi, a local woman has deposited her SSC certificate, title deeds of her property etc with the Tirupati branch of the UCO Bank when she took a loan of Rs.25,000 from the bank in May, 93 under the `scheme for self-employed urban youth'. She repaid the loan in full on 3.5.99 and requested the bank to return all her certificates as she received a call letter for an interview on 5.5.99 for the post of Attender in the Mahila University, Tirupati. But the bank failed to return her the certificates on the plea that they were `misplaced and hence not traceable'. In the meantime she received another call letter for an interview the same month for the post of Field Assistant (ladies quota) in the TTD which also she could not attend as the bank failed to return her the certificates.

A disheartened girl, approached the Forum which pulled-up the bank for its negligent attitude and directed it to pay the girl a compensation of Rs.10,000 within six months.

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