Baripada: North Orissa University at Takatpur in Mayurbhanj district is allegedly playing with the future of degree students. The university authorities have not published the results of fourth semester examinations conducted in June, 2018.
The students are now worried about their future.
The degree students have appeared for the fifth semester in January and the sixth semester in April, 2019. By that time the results of the fourth and fifth semesters should have been out. But the university authorities have held their publication. Students are wondering why the results have not been published.
Students said that they had met the university authorities in the past seeking steps for quick publication of the semester results, but to no avail. As a result, they have been facing problems while applying for jobs.
Companies and managements require mark sheets of the fourth semester. As the students are unable to produce their mark sheets, the companies do not give them jobs, students lamented.
Bikash Pradhan, a student, said that they had repeatedly approached the university authorities for publication of results, but no attention is paid to their plight. “The university authorities are unable to give satisfactory replies,” Pradhan said.
Another student, Monika Patra, said that she had complained to the authorities about delay in result publication. “Whenever we apply for jobs, companies and agencies ask for marks list of fourth semester examinations. Our future is uncertain,” she added.
The results of fourth semester for Computer Science, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Mathematics, English, Odia, Political Science, History, Education, Psychology, Home Science and Geology have not been published.
The university’s Comptroller of Examinations Jitendra Kumar Mantri said that the results of the fourth semester would be published within a week. “The results of the fifth and sixth semesters will be published within a month,” he added.
Notably, NOU was set up at Baripada in 1998. Its second campus is at Keonjhar. There are 80 degree colleges under the NOU in both the districts.
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