New attendance rule for students of DU

Updated on: Saturday, April 28, 2012

Delhi University has come up with new attendance rules for students in the second semester.

According to the new rule, students who have not secured 66.7% attendance will now have to drop a year before they can attend second semester classes again in January 2013.

The DU colleges are very much firm on taking stringent action against defaulting students, though they are still in the process of tabulating attendance for the entire semester, they have sounded out a warning for those students who fail to meet the minimum attendance criteria.

IS Bakshi, principal, Dyal Singh College said that if students have below the minimum requirement of 66.7% attendance, they will be detained. As a result, defaulting students will not be promoted to second year (third semester) and will end up repeating one more year, he said.

While 350 students in total had been detained from the University, Dyal Singh College detained nearly 190 students. SK Garg, Chairperson of DU's high powered committee said that the students who had cleared their first semester but are facing detention in the second semester will not lose their admission. On the other hand, students who are yet to clear their first semester and are being detained this semester, will lose their seat in the college.

Students are of the view that they did not have an idea of their attendance through the semester which is a factor that it would have been a bench-mark for their overall attendance. They said that the authorities have refused to show them their attendance saying that they would get to know every details by May.

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