Students permitted to write exams despite poor atendance

Updated on: Thursday, December 13, 2012

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has allowed the students, who were debarred due to shortage of attendance, to write the semester exams. The students had on Monday threatened to boycott the exams en masse if the issue was not resolved by Wednesday.

A notice signed by the dean of University School of Law and Legal Studies said, the list of students detained from writing end-of-term examination has been withdrawn.

The review committee set up by the university to look into the matter suggested that since the university didn't inform the students on the matter in advance they should be allowed to sit for their exams. The university had debarred 68 law students from writing their exams. Also, the exams have been rescheduled to December 19.

However, the students say they will continue their agitation after the exams as their demands were only partially fulfilled. "Apart from the attendance and detention issue, we are also supporting the teachers' agitation against the dean of USLLS. There are corruption charges against the dean. Moreover, no action has been taken against her son who had physically abused a faculty member inside the class," said a final year student.

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