Bhubaneswar: Around 100 students of more than 15 colleges and members of a students’ group affiliated to Utkal University protested at the varsity demanding postponement of semester exams as the course for the semester has not been completed. They alleged that the semester exam was being hurried as it was a few months ago that the last semester exam was held.
Irate students protested near the varsity’s vice chancellor’s office Monday after participating in a rally from Vani Vihar to the varsity. Students of Baranga College, Ekamara College, Deba Ray College, Christ College and other colleges of Khurda and Cuttack area also participated in it.
Expressing resentment over early examination and incomplete semester courses, students in large number, gathered at the university shouting slogans.
Kalpabata Hota of Jayadev College said that in their college the fourth semester syllabus has not been completed as the teachers were either busy in checking of Plus II papers or in election duty. He pointed out that only 30 percent of the syllabus had been covered.
Dipak of Baranga College lamented that though they had demanded the exam schedule to be changed with the semester exam postponed to June instead of May, the authorities have remained defiant.
The representative students of each college met VC SM Patnaik who assured students that the theory exams will be held in June and the practical exams will be held in May, but he added that all the principals of the college will be asked whether the syllabus has been completed or not.
Earlier, the final year students of University Law College had protested at the University for delay in publication of eighth and ninth semester results.
Jyotisman Kar, a student of 5th year BA LLb (Hons) at the University Law College said, “We had eighth semester exams in December 2017 and ninth semester exams in April 2018. But till now the results have not been published. We are worried as many students have plans to take the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). Some want to go for further studies. The delay in publishing the results has put us in trouble. When we asked the college authorities regarding the delay in publishing the results principal Pranab Kumar Rana said the university is responsible for that and asked us to go on strike.”
Around 120 students of the University and Madhusudhan Law College in Cuttack had taken the eighth and ninth semester exams.
Around 70 students of the University Law College and Madhusdhan Law College gathered at the Utkal University VC’s office demanding publication of the results.