DNA: Mumbai: Saturday, June 10, 2017.
A response to
an RTI query by activist Anil Galgali has revealed that 30-55 per cent results
under the University of Mumbai for the year 2016 came after the stipulated
45-day deadline. Galgali had sought information about the details of results
declared between 2016-17 and the number of days within which the university
declared the respective results.
In the first
half of 2016, the university had conducted 422 exams of which results of close
to 30 per cent exams were declared within the 45-day time frame as mandated by
the Maharashtra Public Universities Act.
However, the
delay got worse in the second half of the semester in which over 54 per cent
results were declared after the deadline.
The
university failed to give details for the first half of 2017 as none of the
results for the year had been declared owing to a delay in the newly introduced
on-screen evaluation process.
“It is worth
mentioning that we are in the month of June and not a single result has been
declared. For graduate level exams, a period of more than 45 days has already
elapsed.
All the
students are anxiously awaiting results and a large number of them plan to take
up higher studies, which is at stake with the delay in the results” said
Galgali.
The
university has cited reasons such as large number of students enrolled under
it, delay in conducting exams due to Diwali vacations and unresponsiveness of
colleges and faculty members towards the evaluation work in a letter addressed
to the Chancellor in April 2017, the RTI further revealed.
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