Kochi: Close on the heels of Higher Education Minister K.T. Jaleel helping a meritorious student to clear a subject who was awarded low marks in valuation and revaluation, through the intervention of an expert panel, more mechanical engineering BTech students are coming out with similar complaints.
These students belong to the first batch of APJ Abdul Kalam Kerala Technological University (KTU) like the student from TKM Engineering College and the paper in question is the same ‘Dynamics of Machinery’. However, they are not coming out in the open fearing adverse measures from the university and problems for their placements.
“I appeared for the paper in 2018 May and the result was published in October that year in which I was declared failed and myself and my batchmates lost the opportunity to appear for the supplementary in that year. The supplementary for the even semester was then held with the last eighth semester. The result of the supplementary was published on September 17 this year and I was informed that I failed but the same was not communicated to the college,” said the student of a prominent self-financing college, who has scored good marks in all other papers in all other semesters.
“Now the news of the minister helping out one student in TKM College has given us hopes but we don’t know how to get remedy for our woes. We are yet to secure copies of our answer scripts also,” said the student who has already got campus placement but is worried over the supplementary.
“When the KTU was started, a committee was formed by including student representatives in it to redress the grievances of the students. However, complaints were redressed only in 2015. Its administration is seriously affected. New rules are hitting students hard also,” said the student pointing out that students with similar woes are finding it difficult to redress them.
A faculty in a reputed self-finacing college said that the latest first semester results had showed 31 students failing in one subject ,of which 17 students were declared passed after revaluation. “Even though the university is following a uniform valuation system, the quality of valuation that takes place at individual valuation camps does not maintain that uniformity,” said the faculty adding over 100 students are facing issues in a batch in Ernakulam district alone a year.
