Over a thousand students of the nearly six-year-old Alliance University, one of the earliest private universities to be set up in the State, are spending anxious moments as their examinations have been postponed indefinitely. Also, the university has been closed for two weeks. All this, owing to a family feud over the management of the university.
All papers of the semester-end engineering examination and some papers of MBA and LLB examination have been deferred indefinitely. Students were intimated last week in an email that the university would be closed temporarily. The university has nearly 7,000 students and many of them have completed their examinations.
Email to students
“Please await to receive revised academic schedule, including examination/re-examination schedules. Any delays now will be made up after we reopen,” said Sudhir G. Angur, Chancellor of the university, in the email last Tuesday. The email has also asked students to rely on their official email address for communication, and not on rumours.
A second semester engineering student said that the exams were scheduled to begin on June 13. “We were told that two exams will be postponed and the rest will continue as per schedule on June 18. But later, we were told that the exams were postponed and we have been given a two-month break till the college reopens in August,” she said, expressing surprise over being given the semester break before the exams began.
Sources said that the feud to take over the university management started nearly two months ago after the former Chancellor, Madhukar G. Angur, was terminated and his brother, Sudhir G. Angur, appointed. Earlier, Mr. Madhukar had been accused by his niece, who also worked in the university, of raping her multiple times.
Students, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Hindu that while rumours of the power struggle within the family had been in the air for more than a year now, it had not affected the student community. It turned worse in the last two months with several moves by the feuding parties within the family, they said. When this correspondent visited the campus on Sunday, scores of police and security personnel were manning the campus and said that a meeting of the varsity officials was under way.
