In a case of denial of degrees to 32 nursing students even four years after passing the course, the National Human Rights Commission has brought respite to them by ensuring that they receive the documents without further delay. The students had completed graduation from Dr. Hari Singh Gaur Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.
The registrar of the university gave degree certificates to nine students at the commission’s office here on Monday. The students had lodged a complaint, while pointing out that the University Grants Commission’s regulations provided for award of degrees within 180 days of the date by which they became eligible.
The students had completed their graduation in 2011 from a nursing institute affiliated to the university. In their complaint, they said that they had suffered mental agony, monetary loss, and career loss because of the authorities’ inaction and failure to provide them the degrees.
During the course of enquiry, the commission did not find the arguments given by the university authorities behind the delay in disbursement of degrees convincing. It said that the delay in giving the degrees had resulted in the denial of fundamental rights of students.
