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MUMBAI: An embarrassing typo that turned 'Mumbai' into 'Mumabai', and forced the University of Mumbai to reissue over a million convocation certificates, is set to cost the printing company a 10-lakh penalty, at least.

According to university sources, a penalty of 20% of the total cost of the printing tender, or 10 lakh, whichever is higher, will be imposed on the contractor.

The decision was taken at a recent Management Council meeting, where the university administration presented an internal inquiry report on the error.

"Once the minutes of the meeting are approved at the next meeting, we will begin the process to take action," said a university official.

Earlier this year, in the run-up to the convocation ceremony, students from colleges affiliated to the university received convocation certificates that had misspelt 'Mumbai' as 'Mumabai'. The university was forced to recall the certificates and reissue them.

The report presented by the university administration named the printer for the error, stating that the proof approved by the university carried the correct spelling, but the copies delivered to students contained the misspelt word. However, elected members of the Management Council are not satisfied with this explanation.

Sheetal Devrukhkar-Sheth, a member of the council, said, "The administration read out the inquiry report, which claimed university officials were not at fault and blamed only the printer. We demanded a copy of the report, but officials said it was confidential."