Nagpur university Engineering results todelay further

NAGPUR: It seems Nagpur University has failed to learn from last year's fiasco when delay in declaring results had led to large-scale protests and subsequently deferring of entire engineering faculty examinations. This year, too, results of many exams , includingthose of first and second semesters, are yet to be declared even after two months of the papers, claimed students. Though NU PRO Prashant Mohite couldn't be contacted for comments, sources from NU disclosed that lecturers, especially from engineering and technology faculty, were unwilling to do evaluation work that is mandatory as per Section 32(5)(g) of Maharashtra Universities Act , 1994. A majorityof them were not reporting for evaluation duties even after several reminders and none of them responded to NU notices inthis regard. These lectures reportedly work for renowned engineering colleges like Yashwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE) and Kavi Kulguru Institute of Technology and Science (KITS), Ramtek. Citing an example of digital image processing subject whosepaper was conducted on January10, sources stated that it was yetto be evaluated. Sources added that so far NU hasmanaged to declare results of only sixth, eight and a couple of branches of third semesters. They claimed that the lecturers were daring to take on the university as they are well aware that their college managements, which are led by powerful politicians and education barons,will not allow the NU administration to take any concrete action. In fact, NU administration and even vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal can punish these 'adamant' lecturers by cancelling their 'approved teacher' status for failing to report for mandatory duties. But never in history has NU taken such extreme action, especially against the engineering lecturers, thus indirectly encouraging them to skip the mandatory duties. It is learnt, even their principals were fully supporting them by asking them to report to the college. Sources claimed that even NU's Board of Examinations (BoE), the apex body for all exam work, hadfailed to take action against suchteachers as all its members were also among the teaching faculty and they will never approve any punishments against their counterparts. They informed thatdue to deferring of last year's winter exams, entire timetable ofengineering faculty was severely disrupted and now, the summer exams would have to be postponed beyond June as most of the results were yet to be out. This will further increase hardships for the students as their results will be declared by September, they added.