The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) to conduct supplementary exam for nearly 30,000 BE students who had become ineligible to join the third semester after failing in more than four subjects in the first and the second semesters during the academic year 2011–12.
It will be for the first time that the VTU would conduct supplementary exam as its regulations have no provision for it
Justice Ram Mohan Reddy passed the interim orders while also directing the VTU to notify all students [even those who had not approached the court] about it and issue the calendar for conducting exam within a week.
Students who cleared the required number of subjects in the supplementary exam as per the VTU regulations would be eligible to join the third semester, and the VTU would have to conduct additional classes for such students to make up their attendance requirement and loss of classes, as by then the regular third semester classes would already have commenced, the court said.
However, the court refused to extend the same benefit to students, who became ineligible for joining the fifth and seventh semesters respectively as they could not clear the minimum number of subjects in the preceding semesters as per the regulations.
Justice Reddy passed the orders on the petitions filed by some of the students, who are studying in the non-autonomous engineering colleges. These students had failed to clear about 5 to 10 subjects of the first and the second semesters, and hence were disqualified to join the third semester as per Regulation 7.2 of VTU’s Regulations for the Bachelor of Engineering/Technology courses.
The students complained that there were serious discrepancies in the academic regulations governing the autonomous engineering colleges and the non-autonomous colleges.
Students studying in about 17 autonomous colleges have the benefit of taking make-up exam at the end of each semester and supplementary exam at the end of each academic year as per the self-regulations framed by each of the autonomous colleges.
However, the petitioner-students contended that those studying in the non-autonomous colleges were at a disadvantage as VTU’s regulations had no provision for make-up or supplementary exam.
The students claimed that different sets of regulations for the same course were illegal.
Validity
The court, while noticing the discrimination, said that it would decide later about validity or otherwise of the provision for make-up or supplementary exam in the regulations of autonomous institutes.
The court did not order for conducting supplementary exam for those seeking admission to the fifth and the seventh semester as these students had not challenged the regulations when they first encountered it while joining the third semester.
Keywords: Karnataka High Court, Visvesvaraya Technological University, supplementary exam for BE students, Bangalore
The university should provide the supplementary exams for those students who get year back for one and only subject,that student should west one for one subject!where other students who having more than 4 subjects they are getting the supplemenatry exam.is university giving the justice for students?
what is this rule.suffring 2nd year student vtu given opportunity to 1st
year student what about lateral entry student did you know dip student
allso suffring for elgible. lot of dip student in my collage total dip
members is 40 out of 40 21 members are year back give the opportunity to
them.oter wise student life is waste.
your fathfully
raj
The last paragraph merely discriminated again by finding a loop hole in law.So that VTU controversial rule would only be helpful by the student who are taking admission in the 3rd or 4th semester . But what about the pupil who have detained because of 1st or 2nd semester paper and are not getting admission in 3rd year (5th and 6th semester) . What about them ?? Isn't it govt task to seek common rule for all and not saying that pupil who challenged vtu for seeking admission were for 2nd year not 3rd year and so the 3rd year student would not get the verdict benefit !!!
decision of court is to make supplementary exam for 1 & 2 sem ineligible students of 2011-12 batch to 3 semister....it means this batch missed the two makeup exams at the end of each semester and provided one supplementary exam now....for 5 and 7 sem students should not got this ,since it is for 2011-12 batch onwards...
its a depressing verdict for 5th sem students, since we were unaware. high court and academic heads should think in the interest of country and help students in this regard.
why this is not applicable for 5th sem students this is the wrong
decision by the HC pls allow our self also to write 3rd and 4th sem
exams and pls help us and dont waste our 1 year life
It is so unfortunate that the courts have to be approached for conducting the business of the universities. The universities should have thought of the consequences of their regulations and taken appropriate action.
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