Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 26: Scores of colleges of University of Kashmir (KU) have refrained hundreds of students to appear in the ongoing final exams of BG Ist year after they failed to qualify internal examination (mid-term) and were short of qualifying attendance.
The new guidelines adopted by some college authorities across Kashmir division have created panic among the aspiring students, as hundreds of them were not allowed to sit in the examination at the final moment.
The students must have more than 75 percent attendance during the current academic session at their respective colleges in each subject.
The angry dropout students accused the colleges and KU authorities for not informing them on time even up to the final moment of the examination.
Dr Javaid Ahmad Bhat, Coordinator Examinations, Government Degree College Tral said as per new KU guidelines after single paper pattern was adopted, those students who failed in the first term examination conducted by respective colleges were not allowed to appear in the second term (final) examination.
“Mid-term exams were must from the current session as per KU guidelines and those failing in it were not allowed to sit in the final session,” he said, adding, that on the roll number slip the name of papers to be examined is written clear.
Similarly, massive protests erupted in Government Degree College Pulwama today as about 200 students, who have been failed in the first term examination, were not allowed to appear in the second term examination.
Reports said agitated students broke the college window panes and college had to call police to control further damage, which disturbed the other students to write answer sheets sitting inside the centers.
Controller Examination KU, Professor Abdul Salam Bhat said they have directed the colleges to set the prescribed procedure for the final conduct of examination and they followed the same.
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