The undergraduate and postgraduate exams held at the autonomous Maharaja’s College on Monday have been cancelled after complaints that the students in three exam halls used mobile flashlights to write the exam following a power outage.
Principal Dr. V. Anil said that the exams were cancelled based on the complaints that mobile phones were used by students in violation of rules. “Though no other irregularities occurred owing to the use of mobile flashlights, we decided to cancel the exams and hold a retest in view of the rule that mobile phones cannot be used inside exam halls,” he said.
The college authorities said that the power outage was not confined to the campus alone, but even nearby institutions were affected owing to a feeder fault. The college had not faced any such power disruptions in recent times after a high tension line was set up exclusively for the college utilising around ₹54-lakh support under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan fund. However, they admitted that the college lacked the generator backup to cater for the entire classrooms.
The students seated in three rooms had used mobile flashlights following the power outage. The college authorities have decided not to conduct the exams in these three rooms on Wednesday amidst fears that a power disruption would hamper the proceedings. It will be held in the rooms at the new academic block, they said. As an autonomous college, the exams are conducted by the college authorities themselves.
