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Around 200 students from various colleges protested outside the Dean Students’ Welfare (DSW) office on Delhi University’s North Campus on Monday against the “mass failure” of more than 400 final-year undergraduate students. Most of them have failed their subsidiary Sociology paper, the result of which was declared on June 27.
Students from colleges including Shivaji College, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Lakshmibai College, Shyam Lal College, Sri Aurobindo College (morning and evening), Rajdhani College and Kalindi College gathered outside the DSW office at 9 am and protested till 12 pm when they were finally called in to meet the DSW J M Khurana. They will hold another protest on Tuesday.
“We are a batch of 120 students in the final year of Political Science (Hons) in Lakshmibai College. Of this, 102 have failed in Sociology subsidiary exam. The 18 who have passed have got 30 on 75 — the pass marks. Obviously, there has been some major blunder from the university’s side. I have cleared MA in Mass Communication in Jamia, but now I’m stuck,” a student said.
The students claimed they were made to wait for two and a half hours inside the DSW office and the officials were not ready to treat it as a case of mass failure. However, Khurana said he met the affected students and heard their grievances.
“I asked them to write an application, which I stamped. It will be forwarded to the Dean of Examinations Office,” he said.
When contacted for his views, the Dean of Examinations, Rup Lal, said that he had no knowledge of the case. “It won’t be appropriate for me to comment on the matter,” he said.
Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) president Nandita Narain supported the protesting students and asked for the “40% aggregate pass method” to be re-implemented.
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