India, June 3 -- Nearly 20 days after the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education announced the Class 12 results, students are reporting problems with their marksheets. According to complaints submitted to the board, some marksheets carry no photographs, while in others the images are so faint that the students' identities are difficult to verify.

More than 16 lakh students took the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) exam this year. The board had introduced a new format under which the marksheet and passing certificate have been combined into a single document. Accordingly, students' photographs are now printed on the document to make authentication easier.

However, when students received their markshe...