Shortly after Bangalore University (BU) made up for its mistake by agreeing to accommodate 19 of the 25 students in its own Master’s in Social Work department, the varsity has backed out. When the students went to attend classes on Monday, they were told there was no space for them.
They were allotted seats in Ganga Kaveri Institute of Science and Management in Rajajinagar, which had shut down some time earlier. After The Hindu reported about the issue, BU agreed to accommodate the students elsewhere.
A student, who was promised a seat in BU, said they were being forced to study in another affiliated private college. “For no fault of ours, the entire batch has been split up and re-allotted seats in three different colleges. We were happy that we could study in BU, as the fee is also lower than in affiliated colleges. Now, we have to buy a different uniform and pay extra fees as demanded by the other college,” she said. Another student said they had paid Rs. 19,000 as fee for the first year in Ganga Kaveri College. In BU, the fee would have been Rs. 8,880 and even lesser for students from the Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
The student also said affiliated colleges had begun classes on August 28 and they had to catch up with the syllabus once they join the colleges.
BU Registrar (Administration) K.K. Seethamma said the head of the Social Work Department had expressed their inability to accommodate more than 60 students admitted to the course. “We were ready to give them a bigger classroom, but there were vacancies in other colleges. So, we decided to accommodate them there,” she said.
