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5. There are no significant errors, procedural irregularities, and improprieties committed by the examiners while evaluating the answer scripts as alleged by the petitioners.
RELEVANT RULES:-

5. Dr.N.T.R. University of Health Sciences, A.P.Vijayawada, had issued notification dated 08.06.2011 introducing Double Valuation System. The said notification was issued on consideration of Modalities, Regulations and recommendations of the Members of the Committee and the same were ratified and approved by the Executive Council.

6. Vide G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F), dated 01.06.2016, the State of Telangana has adopted the said Laws of combined State of Andhra Pradesh as on 02.06.2014.

7. The aforesaid notification dated 08.06.2011 was issued considering various representations submitted by the students after exams alleging that the valuation is strict/not proper and that they were awarded less marks, due to which work load on grievance committee is increasing. Therefore, to improve the standard of valuation and to find remedy, it was proposed in the Board of Studies, Academic Senate and Executive Council held on 03.02.2011 to introduce Double Valuation System to evolve a transparent method to avoid allegation of students. Therefore, it was approved to introduce dual valuation system and to frame modalities for dual valuation. Relevant clauses are mentioned below:- 

   1)         ...........

   2)         The average of the 2 valuations computed shall be taken as

the FINALMARKS awarded in that particular manuscript.

3) In double valuation, if the marks awarded show a deviation of 15% of the maximum possible marks for that paper, such manuscripts shall be subjected to 3rd valuation by a new set of Examiners appointed by the University.

4) Of the first two valuation marks, the marks closest to 3rd valuation will be reckoned as the appropriate among the first two. The average of the 3rd valuation marks and the closest marks of the first two valuation shall be the final marks awarded for that particular manuscripts.

For the aforesaid reasons, Double Valuation System was introduced. The same was adopted by the State of Telangana.

LEGAL POSITION WITH REGARD TO REVALUATION:-

8. A three judge Bench of the Apex Court in Pramod Kumar Srivastava Vs. Chairman, Bihar Public Service Commission, Patna1 held as follows:-

"Under the relevant rules of the Commission, there is no provision wherein a candidate may be entitled to ask for re-evaluation of his answer-book. There is a provision for scrutiny only wherein the answer-books are seen for the purpose of checking whether all the answers given by a candidate have been examined and whether there has been any mistake in the totalling of marks of each question and noting them correctly on the first cover page of the answer-book. There is no dispute that after scrutiny no mistake was found in the marks awarded to the appellant in the General Science paper. In the absence of any provision for re-evaluation of answer-books in the relevant rules, no candidate in an examination has got any right whatsoever to claim or ask for re- evaluation of his marks."