‘Hacking’ charge puts teacher groups on a collision course in Keralam’s MG University
Rival teacher organizations at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala are accusing each other of hacking and unauthorized control of an internal mark-uploading portal. The dispute has disrupted the assessment process for undergraduate students.
Why it matters
The conflict highlights the vulnerability of digital administrative infrastructure in educational institutions to internal political infighting.
A battle over who controls an online system for uploading undergraduate internal marks has opened a fresh front at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, with rival teacher organisations trading allegations of tampering and attempts to disrupt the examination process.
Just two months after the pro-United Democratic Front (UDF) Syndicate took charge, the Congress-backed Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (KPCTA) has alleged that the university’s internal-mark uploading portal was hacked. The association has accused the Left-affiliated All Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (AKPCTA) of unauthorisedly taking control of the system.
The AKPCTA has rejected the charge, saying the university portal is functioning normally and questioning the very basis of the hacking allegation.
The controversy centres on the MGU-FYUGP, the university’s four-year undergraduate Honours programme. Under the system, students’ Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA) marks are uploaded each semester through a web application called the MGU-CCA Generator.
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