‘Dropouts’ seek promotion without exams

‘Dropouts’ seek promotion without exams

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Kota: 08.07.2020

Over a hundred engineering ‘dropouts’ staged a protest outside Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) in Kota demanding to be promoted without clearing pending exams on Tuesday.

These students enrolled for BTech between 2006-2011 and have exhausted all extra chances to clear their back papers. They are called dropouts and are eligible to apply for jobs which are based on Class XII exam.

The RTU had allowed them a mercy chance to clear their back papers in March and April with an aim to see them become engineers. The exams had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. So, RTU had announced to conduct the exams once the situation became normal.

The protesting students said that since the state has allowed the students to be promoted without exams, they should also be promoted.

One of the protesters, Mohammad Ameer, a 2010 student of BTech civil, with two back papers, said, “We should also be promoted in the back paper on the basis of marking in our previous papers.”

Controller of examination Dheeraj Mathur did not respond to the repeated calls and WhatsApp messages while RTU V-C Prof R A Gupta refused to speak.

A senior RTU official has called the demand ‘unjust’ by the students. “They have exhausted all chances given to them as per the RTU rule book and still failed to clear the exams. The RTU is under no obligation to provide any further chance. It is just our kindheartedness that we have decided to provide them with one last chance to clear their exam so that they can be called engineers,” said an official.

Dropouts stage protest outside Rajasthan Technical University in Kota