DU students denied admit card due to low attendance

Updated on: Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Delhi University (DU), amidst its ongoing changes, has left a large number of students in lurch, just a day before the semester examinations (theory) are to begin from November 20. More than a thousand students were not issued admit cards --- till today --- to sit in the exams.

A number of students from both-North and South campus colleges including St Stephen’s, SGTB Khalsa, Indraprastha College for Women, Dyal Singh and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College among others were detained till today morning. However, the situation has now been resolved to an extent, with most students being issued the admit cards after signing an undertaking to complete the requisite attendance in the next semester.

A directive issued by the university earlier this month had asked colleges to permit only those students with 66.67% attendance or above to take the exams, irrespective of the discretionary powers with principals to decide over such attendance-related issues.

“The university in its recent notice withdrew the provision of discretionary powers, which the principals could exercise earlier by making students sign an undertaking bond. However, taking in notice that students were informed of this development very late with many holidays in the middle of the festive week of Diwali, the authorities have approved of permitting students to sit for the current semester exams. But we will implement the university rule next semester onwards of having complete 66.67% attendance,” says Jaswinder Singh, principal of SGTB Khalsa College.  

Meanwhile, Arun Hooda, president, DU students’ union says, “We met the vice-chancellor as well as principals of various colleges today in order to resolve the situation as it was the last day. This has happened for the first time that thousands of students were being detained due to attendance rules. Following this, most colleges have permitted students to appear in the exams beginning tomorrow.”
 

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