Bends rules to favour ‘blue eyed students’
Suhail Bhat
SRINAGAR, Mar 12: In a brazen violation of admission rules, Kashmir University offers admission to ‘blue eyed candidates’ in various PG-level courses without clearing their Under Graduate courses.
In one such case, Saymeen Showkat Maqdoomi, a Law student successfully secured her admission in LLM-course two months before writing her final semester exams while the admission notification, which was issued by the varsity on September last year, clearly mentioned that “only those students who have passed their Under Graduate courses can seek admission in LLM course.”
Not only this, she filled in the results column of her application form two months before appearing in her final exams that were held in the month of November-December last year. The varsity successfully granted her admission on 14th December last year while results were declared almost two months later on 17th February.
The university administration might brush it under carpet by treating it as a case of forgery, but the students alleged such things could not be achieved without the compliance of the administration. “This cannot be done without the help of administration. There is a proper screening of application forms before confirming the examinations. How can they miss it? They refuse admissions to hundreds of students on the same reason every year. It is a routine exercise for them, they have deliberately allowed it to happen,” a student who is aware about the case, told Excelsior.
Every year the varsity denies admission to hundreds of students whose results are awaiting thereby costing them an academic year. However, the blue eyed candidates like Saymeen manages to secure admission without bothering about the rules. “I applied for the M-Tech in December in Kashmir and qualified the entrance test but was denied admissions as my UG results were awaited. How can they reject some students and select the other”? a student asked.
The worried students have also lodged the complaint against this discrepancy in the Lt. Governor’s grievance cell under complaint number 999001313995 and requested authorities to handover the case to the Crime Branch.
An official at Admissions section of the varsity told Excelsior that they have initiated an internal inquiry into the matter and would take appropriate action after receiving the report. “It looks a case of forgery, but it’s too early to say that. Once report is with us we can take action and the accused will be strongly dealt with,” he said, requesting not to be named.
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