DU students find PG dreams in balance

DU students find PG dreams in balance

Mohammad.Ibrar@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:16.11.2020

Delhi University student Nitish Kumar Mishra appeared for the online open book examination in July-August but found himself marked absent when the results were announced on October 27. Despite writing several times to DU, the final-year BCom (H) examinee from Aryabhatta College, and many others like him, are still awaiting to be declared eligible for postgraduate courses.

DU is yet to rectify many such mistakes, though its own PG admission process is to begin from Wednesday. Several students have either got zero or have been marked absent.

“Even after 18 days, the DU examination department has not rectified the results despite many emails to them,” said Mishra. While the PG admission notification states provisional admission will be granted to those whose results are yet to be declared, it doesn’t say anything about those with wrong results, he said.

He is worried that he will miss out on his LLB admissions that starts from Wednesday despite getting a good rank in the entrance.

Aakansha, a student of Dyal Singh College, has cleared the entrance for MA in Punjabi at DU. She got her results only on November 2, but it says she was absent. “The next day, I wrote to my college nodal officer, who told me to send screenshots of the mails.” She said, “I even got a receipt letter from the examination department after uploading my answer sheets.”

The story of Janki Devi Memorial College’s philosophy student, Ruchika Khavatiya, and six of her classmates is no different. “The DU authorities directed me to a phone number that doesn’t work,” said Khavatiya, who aspires to study law in postgraduation. Their faculty had spoken to the principal, who took up the matter with DU, she said. “But there has been no rectification.”

DU dean of examinations D S Rawat told TOI, “We will rectify all results in a couple of days.” He said the authorities had been working on the issues since Sunday.

STUDENT SAYS

Even after 18 days, DU examination department has not rectified the results despite many emails to them