The Academic Council of Jawaharlal Nehru University has decided to switch to online mode of entrance exams. The council has also decided to hire a private vendor to oversee the same but the students of the university are not too happy with the decision and alleged that administration is involved in a scam. The university’s entrance exam system is expected to go online this December.
JNUSU president N Sai Balaji Monday claimed, “The administration pushed ‘online examinationʼ in the agenda of the last AC meeting (on July 13) and declared it to be ‘passedʼ unilaterally — ignoring the dissent of the majority of the house… It is important to note that it was this AC meeting that JNUSU was illegally debarred from attending, citing some proctorial notices which were… served to JNUSU weeks after the AC meet.”
Acting Registrar Heeraman Tiwari claimed that all the allegations are false and a completely democratic process was followed to pass the decision.
“The computer-based test has been adopted by several universities such as DU, IITs, AIIMS etc… After due deliberations with the deans and chairpersons (special centers), the matter was placed for discussion in the AC… Since this is a matter related to student selection and evaluation, it could not have been discussed with students….,” he said in a statement.