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Daltonganj, Mar 30: The Nilamber Pitamber University (NPU), Medininagar is toying with the idea to initiate a proactive decision in respect of those students who have either failed in various semester examinations or could not take their examinations.
Sources said that many students enrolled in this university eke out their living outside the Palamu division or even outside Jharkhand. Such students often miss their examinations due to being away from their jobs.
Following the ease of the Coronavirus situation and lifting of the restrictions, the enrolled students who were home locked during 2020 and 2021 are out of Jharkhand.
A parent of the Chainpur block told lagatar24.com that his daughter could not take her postgraduation’s first-semester examination just because all six-member-family got affected by the Coronavirus.
She, however, gave the second semester. Her father is not sure of the fate of his daughter’s academic career if she would be promoted to the third semester when there is the academic arrear of the first semester.
Pro vice-chancellor of NPU Dr Deepnarayan Yadav said there is hardly any day when he does not have one or two applications from students having issues of missing their respective semester examinations or getting plucked as well.
“We do find the Coronavirus pandemic and its post-side effects have rendered life going tough both physically and financially and students are not unaffected too,” said the Pro VC.
Asked as to what this university plans to do for such students who have missed their semester or failed, Dr. Deepnarayan Yadav said the university is aware of their issues and the university is very considerate of their problems.
However, he asked the students to be extra alert and cautious about the schedule for the semester examinations and make it their point to clear it as well.
He said necessary instructions have been given to the departments to process the applications detailing ‘examinations missed or failed’ and such students be given a chance and opportunity to clear it to avail of the promotion benefit in the academic pipeline.
Dr Sunil Kumar Singh, who heads the university postgraduate department of English under the NPU, said: “There are cases of students not taking their first semester or so and we in consultation with the university, will have to allow such students who missed semesters to appear at the examination to stay clear of their academic arrear.”
The Pro VC sounded peeved when he said the examination department does not get in time marks of the internal examination from the teachers concerned and this pulls a big brake.
He said he has to walk extra miles to get marks for the internal examination in time but the learned teachers hardly care a fig about what the university expects them to abide by directive of the university.
“Every one of us from teachers to the officials should give utmost priority to the examination as the image of any university is tied to its clarity of the examination,” the Pro VC said.
He said there was a huge backlog of the various examinations which are now getting over steadily.
On being asked as to what the percentage of the absence of the students is in the examination, the pro-vice-chancellor said, “It will help us to prepare a data of absence in the examination year wise and examination wise.”
Yadav said he has directed the examination department of the university and examination offices in the colleges to collect this figure of students absent from the university examination.
Sources said there has been a 1.5 to 2 percent absence of students in the examination in the past here at this university.
Now, the university will find out the percentage of the absence of the students in the post Coronavirus pandemic for which the pro-vice-chancellor has so asked.
