the goan I network
PANAJI
Many of the 37 students of Don Bosco College of Agriculture, Sulcorna, are staring at the loss of a year in pursuit of higher studies as the authorities at the Goa University are dragging their feet to issue their mark-sheets and passing certificates over minor technicalities.
Others interested in picking up the rare job available on completion of their 4-year BSc Agriculture degree course are stopped in their tracks for the same reason.
All 37 students who comprise the first batch of the agriculture degree course presented themselves before the media at a press conference in the city where they accused the University authorities of delaying the process to issue them their mark-sheets and passing certificates for no tangible reason.
The course was introduced four years ago by the Goa University through an ordinance issued by it in July 2015.
Nearly twenty of these students have appeared for competitive entrance exams to pursue higher studies but are now in a quandary as the deadline to upload their mark-sheets or passing certificates is closing in and there are no signs of the University issuing them these crucial documents.
One of the students, Priyanka Parab, claimed that their college had in September 2018 itself intimated to the Assistant Registrar (Exams) responsible for monitoring exams of all under-graduate colleges affiliated to the University, that the final eighth semester examination of the first batch would be in April 2019. The college principal had also informed the Assistant Registrar that the University will be required to issue a consolidated report card of all eight semesters as per its 2015 Ordinance creating the BSc (Agri) course.
Issuing consolidated mark-sheets of all eight semesters is a norm with agriculture colleges across more than sixty universities in the country as against the system of issuing mark-sheets only of the final two semesters followed by the Goa University for other general stream courses in arts, science, commerce and management, Parab said.
The College also furnished to the Examination Section of the Goa University the results of all the 37 students for Semesters I to VII covering three-and-half years of study in December last year itself, Parab said, adding that the final Semester VIII result was sent to the University on May 22 this year.
Officials of the University were not available for verification of the claims of the students who also alleged that the varsity officials were dilly-dallying on moving a file before Governor Mridula Sinha, who is also the Chancellor of Goa University, to partially modify the original 2015 Ordinance creating the course to incorporate the ‘grading system’ in the results sheet.
Their efforts to knock the doors of the vice-chancellor to resolve their predicament have thus far proved futile.
