NAGPUR TOI NEWS: For the fourth day in a row, beleaguered engineering students gathered in front of Nagpur University to press for their demands. On Tuesday NU resembled a fortress with scores of policemen forming a security cordon around it.
The university was besieged by morchas voicing their various demands since morning. Aggrieved students from the law department too gathered before the university seeking postponement of their examinations that begin from Thursday.
Various students' organizations, who were absent from the scene till yesterday, have suddenly found their voice. These include ABVP, NSUI and MNS. According to the agitating students, vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal and pro-VC Mahesh Yenkie are not paying heed to their complaint about undervaluation of their answersheets. They said that instead of solving their problem these top officials have asked them to approach the high court.
Even the police officials led by DCP Zone-I Kailash Kanse gave the students the same advice and also asked them to wait for two more days till the Academic and Management Councils meet on Wednesday and Thursday respectively to decide their fate.
Meanwhile, another group of students met the NU officials requesting them not to defer the BE exams as it was clashing with GATE, scheduled on January 20, and other competitive exams.
Officials, however, blamed colleges for illegally granting provisional admission to ineligible students by flouting norms and then sending them to NU after problems cropped up. They raised serious doubts as to why these students hadn't agitated in the last couple of years.
They claimed that the former controller of examination (COE) Siddarth Kane had allegedly allowed 'jumping' students who failed to clear their first or second year exams to appear in third and fourth year (semesters) exams while flouting rules and regulations.
The exams are conducted as per ordinances 27 of 2008 and 6 of 2009 and granting 'jumping' facility to these students was prohibited. Even 'carry on' facility that allowed admission to such failed students to the subsequent years was also allegedly allowed during Kane's tenure. When the new team of pro-VC Mahesh Yenkie and COE Vilas Ramteke took charge, they stopped these 'jumping' admissions that led hundreds of students to storm the NU premises.
"Many students approached us citing their seniors or their batch mates getting 'jumping' admissions. Only after that we realized that in the last two years, many such admissions took place by blatantly flouting norms and of course with the consent of the former COE," an official revealed. Kane however didn't respond to the several calls made to him.
Panel to probe illegal admissions
Nagpur University seems to have realized its mistake of letting its affiliated colleges off the hook with the latter indulging in granting illegal admissions. VC Vilas Sapkal constituted a panel to probe illegal admissions in colleges offering professional courses like engineering, law and MBA.
The panel will comprise engineering faculty dean Ravindra Kshirsagar, commerce dean Bharat Meghe, law dean Anjali Hastak and the joint director of technical education or his nominee. NU deputy registrar SS Bharambe will be its member secretary. The panel is expected to submit a report within a month.
"The panel will scrutinize all admissions by colleges offering professional education in the last two years. It will also check whether the colleges had illegally granted provisional admissions to garner fees from the students," registrar Ashok Gomase told TOI.
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