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Six-year wait for exam results

Staff Correspondent

Basavaraj Siddappa Dharwad

HUBLI: It was no fault of his, but yet it took six years for him to get the results of the examination he had written. And it took another year for him to get his name, which was wrongly mentioned, corrected.

Now eight years after that, Basavaraj Siddappa Dharwad of Navanagar in Hubli is struggling to find a job. He has the responsibility to look after his ailing mother and two younger brothers.

After getting the results of his Diploma (Engineering and Telecommunication) examination six years after he appeared for it, Mr. Basavaraj made attempts to take up self-employment. He sold vegetables, milk, supplied papers, worked as assistant to photographers and even drove an autorickshaw. But success eluded him. “Being a general category candidate, I had no way of getting into government service, as by the time I got my diploma certificate I was 31 years. Private companies didn’t want to recruit me at 31. I had no experience of working in fields connected to my subject,” he says.

As his attempts to get employment failed, Mr. Basavaraj moved to court seeking compensation from the Board of Technical Education and KLE Polytechnic College, Hubli, for the inordinate delay in announcing the results, which had ruined his future.

However, his petition which was filed in 2004, was dismissed by the First Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Hubli on December, 2006.

At 38, Mr. Basavaraj still has no permanent job as such. Because of financial problems, one of his brothers, Mahantesh, had to discontinue studies after SSLC. He now works in a hotel as steward. Another brother who failed in second year PUC is also looking for a job.

Now, Mr. Basavaraj’s only plea is that the Government should consider him for a job on humanitarian grounds as he had to suffer for no fault of his. He is fed up of seeking help from others. Since December, 2006, Mr. Basavaraj has sent appeals to various Ministers, the Chief Minister, the Deputy Chief Minister, the Prime Minister and the President. He has received replies from them on directions given to the departments concerned. But nothing has materialised.

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