A never-ending saga of protests, controversies, and mismanagement seems to have engulfed several prominent universities and colleges in India. Now, flames of protests seem to have reached the Ramanujan College at the University of Delhi. According to reports, students have been barred from sitting for their examinations.
The management refused to grant permission to students to take annual examinations after they had failed to fulfil the minimum attendance criteria. Nearly 200 students are believed to have been barred from sitting in the examination on account of low attendance figures.
Shakti Singh, President of the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) had discussions with the college’s principal, Mr SP Agarwal, and asked him to allow the students to write the exams after signing an undertaking, but the effort did not yield favourable results.
The police also had to be called in as Singh, along with those protesting, was adamant on students being allowed to write the exam.
Agarwal told Singh that the students had failed to adhere to the minimum attendance criteria, which is 66%. The attendance of many of the barred students read as low as 30%.
Speaking about the issue, Shakti Singh asked, “why do these colleges not inform the students about their low attendance? This debarring problem is with Vivekananda College, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College, Aryabhatta College and others.”
Speaking about the issue, a DU official stated that all attendance-related rules have been given by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and all colleges need to adhere to these rules.
The series of protests at Magadh University after the management’s failure to conduct yearly examinations, students taking Punjab University by storm after the university’s inability to provide students with access to the GTB reading hall; women residing in the hostel facility in Jamia Millia Islamia raising their voices against the administration’s denying coolers in rooms – this has been one long chain of events.
Featured image source: Ramanujan College, DU/Official Website.
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