Punjab's Terrible University.
I was busy with the internals. Life of a final year student is really crazy. You have to meet the project deadlines and then have to keep an eye on falling grades. Have to attend all the parties and most of them include booze. So if you do not drink life could be terrible. Apart from these, we are getting troubled by a different kind of problem, so thought I can enlighten some folks around me and my juniors about the issue and well, attempted to vent out the frustration inside me.
Before starting with this article I have a few questions to ask.
If you answer all the questions in a No, then perhaps you are missing all the excitement and fun of being an undergraduate student. Welcome to PTU. Punjab Technical University aka Punjab's Terrible University.
PTU is in news again, but this time for locking horns with IGNOU. IGNOU claims that PTU has jurisdiction only in the state of Punjab and thus, by no means is elligible to run distant education programs in states like Rajasthan, Himachal and Haryana. A petition is lying pending with the Apex court for the hearing. The students registered with these distant educacation centers immediately launched a counter offensive as they know that once the PTU claim is defetaed in the court, they will all have to give up their hopes of a degree or a diploma of PTU.
Well, I have a completely different side of the story to tell. PTU can take the credit of running several courses which benefits thousands of students in and around Punjab but, does it really cares for the future of all those students? I guess I have an answer for this question. Five months have passed since we appeared for our pre-final semester examinations and still the two junior batches are waiting for their results with bated breaths. Due to some peer pressure and a decent diplomatic stance put in by our newly appointed director (again a make-shift one), we the final year students have been awarded a bargain in the form of early declaration of results. Man! what a crazy definition of early.
Our academic session was scheduled to end during the last week of April and it did completed on the scheduled date. But, we were really shocked that what is taking so long for the declaration of results. The students went for a strike and then only the authorities at our institute woke up from their slumber took the trouble of dialling some number. The results of the final year students were declared in a haste but the results of the junior batches are still lying pending with the university and so are the examination dates.
Well, my question is that if an university fails to take care of it's regular students and compromises with their future life (due to the late examinations an imminent danger is lurking on the careers of those students who are either placed or are all set to go for higher studies) then, on what premises it could justify it's stand to run correspondence courses and distance education programs? This is the university which was once served by the expert scientiest and a colleague of president APJ Abdul Kalam, but well, I am forgetting this fact that he resigned (or was made to resign due to the totally inept system) from his post. May supreme court do the justice.
Before starting with this article I have a few questions to ask.
- Does your university asks you to fill the forms for reappear before even declaring the results?
- Does the declaration of results always takes four to five months?
- Does your university often spin surprises for you ie; by awarding you more marks then the total questions you have attempted or awarding a reappear in the subject where you had the chances of scoring maximum?
- Does your university declares the re-evaluation result after six months or in some cases, after an year?
- Does your university makes a mistake in spelling the names in your marks card and then taking forever to make the correction?
If you answer all the questions in a No, then perhaps you are missing all the excitement and fun of being an undergraduate student. Welcome to PTU. Punjab Technical University aka Punjab's Terrible University.
PTU is in news again, but this time for locking horns with IGNOU. IGNOU claims that PTU has jurisdiction only in the state of Punjab and thus, by no means is elligible to run distant education programs in states like Rajasthan, Himachal and Haryana. A petition is lying pending with the Apex court for the hearing. The students registered with these distant educacation centers immediately launched a counter offensive as they know that once the PTU claim is defetaed in the court, they will all have to give up their hopes of a degree or a diploma of PTU.
Well, I have a completely different side of the story to tell. PTU can take the credit of running several courses which benefits thousands of students in and around Punjab but, does it really cares for the future of all those students? I guess I have an answer for this question. Five months have passed since we appeared for our pre-final semester examinations and still the two junior batches are waiting for their results with bated breaths. Due to some peer pressure and a decent diplomatic stance put in by our newly appointed director (again a make-shift one), we the final year students have been awarded a bargain in the form of early declaration of results. Man! what a crazy definition of early.
Our academic session was scheduled to end during the last week of April and it did completed on the scheduled date. But, we were really shocked that what is taking so long for the declaration of results. The students went for a strike and then only the authorities at our institute woke up from their slumber took the trouble of dialling some number. The results of the final year students were declared in a haste but the results of the junior batches are still lying pending with the university and so are the examination dates.
Well, my question is that if an university fails to take care of it's regular students and compromises with their future life (due to the late examinations an imminent danger is lurking on the careers of those students who are either placed or are all set to go for higher studies) then, on what premises it could justify it's stand to run correspondence courses and distance education programs? This is the university which was once served by the expert scientiest and a colleague of president APJ Abdul Kalam, but well, I am forgetting this fact that he resigned (or was made to resign due to the totally inept system) from his post. May supreme court do the justice.
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