Mumbai: Students’ groups protested at the Vidhan Sabha, Kalina and Fort campuses of the Mumbai University on Tuesday afternoon, demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) Sanjay Deshmukh and Education Minister Vinod Tawde over the delay in declaring results.
Dhananjay Munde, leader of Opposition in the State Council, has also moved an adjournment motion demanding the resignation of the Vice Chancellor.
Aniket Ovhal of sutdents’organisation Akhil Bhartiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP), Konkan, who were holding the protest at the Vidhan Sabha said, “The extended deadline was July 31, which has obviously been missed, and now we are unsure when the results will be declared.”
“Results of only 171 out of the 300 exams are out, and the rest may not be out till the second week of August. We don’t think the present VC is a good fit for the university. He has no vision. This entire thing is a betrayal of the students,” said Pramod Karad, State Secretary of ABVP.
Yuva Sena, too, held a protest at the Kalina Campus of the university. “The results should have been declared by now and there should be a help desk set up for students who are applying to universities abroad and in India, so that their results may be expedited,” said Dharam Mishra, a committee member of Yuva Sena.
“Due to the disorganised manner of evaluation, and the lack of manpower, it is possible that the quality of evaluation will go down. The main issue here is that students are suffering from all directions and the Vice Chancellor and Education Minister Vinod Tawde must resign,” he said.
Future in jeopardy
Dnyaneshwar Pawar, a B.Com final year student appeared for his examinations in April. “I want to go and do an MBA abroad, but because the results have not been announced, I cannot decide what to do. The admission procedure has already taken place in a lot of universities and my future is uncertain,” he said.
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) held a protest at the Fort campus of the university. The federation demanded an immediate declaration of results along with the resignation of the Vice Chancellor and the Education Minister.
Quality also a worry
“There were talks that Class XII students were helping evaluate answer sheets, which is completely unacceptable for a university of this reputation. The quality of the results must also be taken care of,” said Rameshwar Shere, District Secretary of SFI, Mumbai.
ABVP members met Mr. Tawde on Tuesday evening. The Minister told the delegation that he would inform the Governor of their demand to remove the Vice Chancellor. Apart from that, the government will waive the re-evaluation fees and the possibility of substandard evaluation of answer sheets by examiners will be investigated as well, he assured them.
