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Saturday, May 12, 2012

AU gives in to students' demands



SILCHAR: With an aim to quell the ongoing agitation by college students under Assam University, Silchar and members of the Barak Valley unit of the Assam College Teachers Association (ACTA), the AU authorities on Monday bowed down to the demands of the agitators.
The academic council of AU, a central varsity situated at Dorgakona, 22 km from here, in a meeting on Monday amended clause 14 of the rules of the guidelines of the semester system (TDC course). According to the amendment, a student who has been admitted to the TDC first semester may be allowed to proceed to the next semester (up to the sixth semester) irrespective of number of back papers. The decision is in line with the demands of the agitating students.
The 62nd meeting (emergent) of the AU academic council also decided that all first and third semester students shall be allowed to appear in the fourth semester examination, irrespective of the number of back papers in earlier semesters.
The summer vacation for affiliated colleges for the academic session 2011-12 shall remain the same as scheduled earlier.

The even semester examination for affiliated colleges for the academic session 2011-12 shall be rescheduled from June 25 to July 10 this year. The practical examination shall commence from May 10, the meeting decided. The submission of applications forms for the even semester examinations in the undergraduate colleges should be completed by May 18.

The meeting of the academic council, which was attended by 60 members and presided over by acting vice-chancellor Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, also decided that the process of rectification of all erroneous marksheets should be completed within a period of seven days from the date of receipt of the same from different colleges, a communique by AU registrar (in-charge) Niranjan Roy said.

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