The Kirori Mal College has said the ruckus created during the UGC-NET entrance examination on Sunday was due to the confusion and misinformation retrieved by the students from internet.
The college Principal on Monday underlined that the scene that was created by the NET aspirants was not the fault of the College, but the information extracted from various unauthorised websites from where students also followed the list of centres of the previous year.
The college said that the pandemonium created by the anxious students could have been controlled, but the police did not act on time.
“Being the co-ordination centre for UGC-NET, we had taken 79 schools, including our colleges, as centres for the examination. Every year, the list of centres allotted to the students is uploaded on the website a week before. The website was updated on time and 400 students were taking the test at our college as it was the centre for them. The same day, entrance exams for railways was also being conducted; so fearing any untoward incident, we had held a meeting with various schools to ensure the examination runs smoothly for our NET aspirants. However, students got into a tizzy after they extracted wrong lists from unauthorised websites, instead of the official college website,” said SP Gupta, Principal of the college.
Mohsina Hayat, an aspirant, talked about her ordeal for having reached the Banarasidas Chandiwala Institute of Information Technology at Kalkaji and commuting to the Kirori Mal College in haste.
“I had taken the information from website www.ugcnetcoaching.com which got me in trouble,” Hayat said. Another aspirant said he had downloaded a pdf file from google.
However, students on Sunday had alleged that the website was not updated on time.
Talking about the tension that was created after angry students barged into one of the examination halls where the entrance for the post of Education officers was being conducted, the displeased Principal said that the situation would not have turned so bad if the police had acted on time.
“The police officials at the centre hardly stopped any students who just tore the answer sheets in one of the halls. Only after the DCP of the area sent a force, the situation was controlled. The 400 students who wrote the NET exam in another hall did not have to face any such hurdle and their copies were sent to the UGC safely with the help of the police later on,” he added.
He said the examination for those who faced problems is likely to be conducted by coming Sunday.