MU officials pocket postal fee for certificates: MNVS

MNVS activists have written to the varsity authorities threatening to move court if they fail to return the money to the students within a month. “Not a single convocation/degree certificate was sent to the residential addresses of students since 2009,though they had paid the fees. In fact last year,after a long delay some of the certificates were sent to the respective colleges. So,this year we decided to write about this issue and even the delay to the vice-chancellor and the controller of examination,” said MNVS vice-president Sainath Durge.

Students are struggling to get their convocation certificates. Many who have received their certificates are also complaining that their names have been misspelt on them.

Sudhakar Tamboli,MU senate member from MNVS,said: “We have also received complaints from students that many of them had applied for photocopies of their answersheets for revaluation,but have not received them even after months. University charges Rs 500 towards the photocopy of one answersheet. This year,they have collected the fees but many students have not received the photocopy.”

Professor Vilas Shinde,controller of examination of MU,denied the allegations. He said,“From 2009,we have been sending the convocation certificates to the colleges and students are supposed to collect it from there. This was decided by the varsity authorities unanimously in 2008 after 15,000 certificates were returned to us by the postal department as they could not identify the addresses. At the same time,the Rs 50 that we are collecting from the students towards postal charges are being used to send the certificates to their respective colleges.”

However,MNVS activists alleged that certificates sent to the colleges are not being sent through post,but are collected by college representatives.