Nagpur: After Nagpur University entrusted colleges to conduct examinations for the failure (ATKT) students, those associated with ITM Engineering College, Kamptee, are in a quandary as its management has locked the premises.
The college has already stopped admissions and applied for closure about a couple of years back after facing several controversies. A majority of its faculty members and non-teaching staff have switched over to other institutions.
Even the students were shifted to other colleges, but some of them had their backlog subjects whose exams are supposed to be conducted by the ITM management. But now, there’s no one from the management to guide them, as per the aggrieved students.
In a series, TOI had also reported about many discrepancies in the college.
“We are clueless at the moment as our college is completely locked and even the faculty doesn’t have any idea about our fate. We can’t get the degree until our backlog subjects are cleared. Our new college can’t conduct our exams for backlog papers as per the rules. The university should guide us or else we would lose our academic year,” the aggrieved students told TOI.
Their teachers said the management hastily locked the college without giving any intimation, putting the future of students at stake. “They only told us that the entire premises would be locked from December 18. We are permanent faculty members here and we should be given at least three months’ notice. They locked the gates on scheduled dates. We have already complained to NU vice-chancellor Subhash Chaudhari and pro-VC Sanjay Dudhe about this mismanagement,” college’s head of mechanical engineering department, Mithilesh Pandey told TOI.
NU Board of Exam and Evaluation (BoEE) director Prafulla Sable said they haven’t receive any complaint from students in this regard. “In a similar case from Wardha, we had shifted students to other colleges. If students approach us, we would help them out,” he told TOI.
College clerk Suyog Taywade though the college was closed, exams would be held online. “Students don’t have to worry as some non-teaching staff like me are still there. We will ensure that their exams are held online from February 2 to 19. We will approach the NU authorities soon in this regard,” he said.