Nagpur University VC decides to act tough against teachers who fail to report for duties

Updated on: Friday, April 12, 2013

Perhaps learning from past mistakes, Nagpur University vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal has decided to act tough against the teachers who earlier failed to report for duties, even as its deferred examinations commenced on Friday. In a public notice uploaded on its website, pro vice-chancellor Mahesh Yenkie has asked all striking lecturers, who were assigned the duties of evaluation, to remain present at the NU evaluation centre on the fifth day, after completion of their subject papers.

Yenkie said that these evaluators were already informed through letters for joining evaluation duties when the exams were originally scheduled on March 23. But the exams were deferred due to some 'unavoidable' reasons and therefore, no new notices would be dispatched to them. The rescheduled exams that would commence on Friday included courses like BA, BCom, BSc, BSc (Home Science) and others of first and final years.

Yenkie has asked principals, directors and heads of departments of all affiliated or conducted colleges to inform their teaching staff members about this change and ensure that they report on duties at the scheduled time.

Buckling under intense pressure of teachers, the V-C had indefinitely deferred 48 exams scheduled to commence on March 23, affecting over 1.5 lakh students. After TOI exposed NU's meek surrender and followed it up with a series of reports, various students' organizations staged protests and even NU Senate members criticized the move. It was only after pressure exerted by the students and Senate members that NU rescheduled the theory exams that will now begin on Friday.

It was for the second time that Sapkal-led administration had deferred the exam under pressure, that too just a couple of days before their commencement. Earlier, NU had postponed engineering exams scheduled to commence on October 5 last year under pressure from the local politicians and education barons who allegedly wanted to legalize their illegal admissions, thus affecting over 60,000 students, said officials.

Controller of examinations (CoE) Vilas Ramteke justified NU's tough stance on exams while citing Government Resolution (GR) of March 20. "We are ready for conducting all exams now and have warned the principals and chief supervisors of all 200 centres that it will be entirely their responsibility to ensure that papers are conducted successfully. If anything goes wrong at the centre, such as paper leak or accidental leak, they will be held responsible. Entire cost of reconducting exams will be recovered from such colleges," he warned.

He added that they had even conducted a series of meetings with all principals and supervisors for addressing their grievances and told them to take help of graduates from their respective areas for holding exams. "We will not listen to any excuse this time, and will take action against the erring colleges if they failed to do their duties," he said while reiterating that exams will not be deferred at any cost.

Nagpur University VC decides to act tough against teachers who fail to report for duties

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