Due to delay in results students could end up losing job they got through placement
Mahatma Gandhi University
KOCHI: The future of over 10,000 students, who have completed BTech courses under the Mahatma Gandhi University this year, is in peril due to the MGU’s inordinate delay in releasing the final semester results. Among the students is the son of a former Vice-Chancellor of a university in Kerala.Owing to the delay, some of the affected in 42 engineering colleges will lose their jobs which they had got through placements while other universities in the state have declared the BTech results.
Another group of students, who have been hit, are those aspiring to do MTech. Even in colleges under the MGU, classes for MTech have started while the deadline to join MTech in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has passed. The son of the former VC, who qualified in the entrance for the MTech in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for a rare branch, could not join it as he could not get his result from the MG University.
Sources in the MGU said that the shuffling in the IT systems department, which controls the examination tabulation and other activities, hit the timely declaration of the results. The person who assumed charge in the department recently is reported to be not adept at handling things. The Controller of Examinations Dr Thomas J. Mampra was not available for comments.
MGU acting Vice-Chanellor Dr Sheena Shukkoor blamed the teachers who undertook the valuation for the delay. “Some of them entered marks wrongly which was detected when they were entered into the computer system. The computer programmers reverted and I took up the issue with the academic section and the valuation committee chairman who then reviewed it and corrected. This resulted in the delay and not any system department shuffling caused it. The results are expected in two-three days,” Dr Sheena told DC.
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