GUWAHATI: The ongoing countrywide strike through rural postal employees would possibly land undergraduate scholars of Gauhati University in hassle as answer-scripts of semester-end checks would possibly not reach the evaluation zones in time as a result of the week-long stir.
Rural postal employees, engaged as Gramin Dak Sevaks beneath India Post, are on strike in Assam too crippling the essential provider of mail dispatch. Hundreds of answer-scripts of the just concluded 2nd, fourth and 6th semester examinations of undergraduate courses could not be dispatched or are stuck halfway as postal supply males have abstained from paintings since Monday.
As 99% of the answer scripts are sent from the exam centres to evaluation zones, a huge selection of them have not but reached the evaluation zones, mentioned GU officers. They concern the prolong in dispatch could hit the announcement of effects, which in flip would possibly upset the educational plans of scholars who've seemed within the 6th (final) semester examinations.
"By June, the results of all semester-end examinations should be declared. But the ongoing protests of postal employees has put colleges in a spot. The packets containing the answer-scripts may not reach the evaluation zones in time. Unless India Post considers the issue, the students may suffer," mentioned Debahari Talukdar, deputy controller of examinations at GU.
Since admissions to post graduate courses in famend universities start from July, the effects have to be published through June to give the scholars a few days to decide on the future course. "The university wants to declare the results of all the three semesters at the earliest. But we are more concerned about the results of the sixth semester. If the results are not declared by June, the students may face difficulties in applying for post graduate courses," he added.
Rural postal employees, engaged as Gramin Dak Sevaks beneath India Post, are on strike in Assam too crippling the essential provider of mail dispatch. Hundreds of answer-scripts of the just concluded 2nd, fourth and 6th semester examinations of undergraduate courses could not be dispatched or are stuck halfway as postal supply males have abstained from paintings since Monday.
As 99% of the answer scripts are sent from the exam centres to evaluation zones, a huge selection of them have not but reached the evaluation zones, mentioned GU officers. They concern the prolong in dispatch could hit the announcement of effects, which in flip would possibly upset the educational plans of scholars who've seemed within the 6th (final) semester examinations.
"By June, the results of all semester-end examinations should be declared. But the ongoing protests of postal employees has put colleges in a spot. The packets containing the answer-scripts may not reach the evaluation zones in time. Unless India Post considers the issue, the students may suffer," mentioned Debahari Talukdar, deputy controller of examinations at GU.
Since admissions to post graduate courses in famend universities start from July, the effects have to be published through June to give the scholars a few days to decide on the future course. "The university wants to declare the results of all the three semesters at the earliest. But we are more concerned about the results of the sixth semester. If the results are not declared by June, the students may face difficulties in applying for post graduate courses," he added.
Postal stir may hit Gauhati University answer-scripts delivery
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