The HNB Garhwal University has debarred about 125 students admitted to vacnt Non-Resident Indian quota in various BEd private colleges of the State from appearing in the term-end examination. The decision has infuriated the colleges and they have threatened to move the court to seek justice for these students.
The State Government has reserved seven seats each in all BEd colleges for No-Resident Indians and most of these seats remain unoccupied. The management of 24 private colleges gave admissions to other students in these reserved seats when NRIs failed to turn up. These colleges are affiliated to the HNB Garhwal Central university. Terming these admissions improper, the University has refused permission to these students for appearing in the term end examination scheduled from March 08.
A delegation of association of self financed institutes met the university vice-chancellor Jl Kaul and registrar AK Jha recently and requested the university to reconsider its
decision.
The president of the association of self financed institutes of Uttarakhand, Sunil Agarwal told The Pioneer that the colleges had requested the university to give permission to fill the seats of NRI quota from normal students when the seats in this quota remained vacant after advertisement. He claimed that the university did not responded on the request and the colleges gave provisional admissions to normal students on these seats. “In the years 2014 and 2015 too university allowed open admissions in NRI quota and this time when no response on the request was elicited from the university the colleges granted provisional admissions. Interestingly the university even submitted their examination fees in the month of November 2016. When the process of online submission of examination forms started on February 20, the university debarred these students,’’ Agarwal said.
These students had attended the classes and gave the practical examinations. The association has now threatened that it is contemplating to move to the court to seek justice for the students whose future is at stake.
When contacted the pro vice chancellor of the HNB Garhwal Central university, professor Devendra Singh Negi said that many colleges were late in submission of request to fill these seats with non-NRI students and some of these applications were also incomplete. He however added that the issue is being considered and a final decision would soon be taken.