JU teachers to abstain from exam process if conducted online
Kolkata Mar 30 PTI Teachers of Jadavpur University JU have threatened to boycott the examination process if the institution yields to some agitating engineering students demand that the final semester tests be held online by reversing its decision to conduct the exercise in the offline modeSome engineering students had gheraoed Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das on the campus for 10 hours on Monday to press for their demand On Tuesday he did not attend workTerming the students demand as unjust the Jadavpur University Teachers Association JUTA and the institutions chapter of the All Bengal University Teachers Association ABUTA said they will boycott the examination process if the decision to hold it offline is reversedJUTA has taken a unanimous decision to not take part in the process if the final semester engineering examination is conducted in the online mode instead of the already adopted decision of the examination board to hold it offline on the campus this year as it will mean giving in to the unjust demand of a section of the pupils the teachers bodys general secretary Partha Pratim Roy told PTIABUTA also echoed JUTA in describing the students demand as unjust and criticising the gherao of the VCOur member teachers will also refrain from participating in the examination process if it is conducted online ABUTA spokesperson Goutam Maity saidVice Chancellor Das however said that the examination boards decision is final and will not be reversedWe will not give in to such demands of the students I have told them categorically during the gherao that the examination will be held offline this time he saidA spokesperson of FETSU Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union said that as classes were held in online mode in the last two years the final semester examination should also be held online PTI SUS ACD ACD
Kolkata Mar 30 PTI Teachers of Jadavpur University JU have threatened to boycott the examination process if the institution yields to some agitating engineering students demand that the final semester tests be held online by reversing its decision to conduct the exercise in the offline modeSome engineering students had gheraoed Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das on the campus for 10 hours on Monday to press for their demand On Tuesday he did not attend workTerming the students demand as unjust the Jadavpur University Teachers Association JUTA and the institutions chapter of the All Bengal University Teachers Association ABUTA said they will boycott the examination process if the decision to hold it offline is reversedJUTA has taken a unanimous decision to not take part in the process if the final semester engineering examination is conducted in the online mode instead of the already adopted decision of the examination board to hold it offline on the campus this year as it will mean giving in to the unjust demand of a section of the pupils the teachers bodys general secretary Partha Pratim Roy told PTIABUTA also echoed JUTA in describing the students demand as unjust and criticising the gherao of the VCOur member teachers will also refrain from participating in the examination process if it is conducted online ABUTA spokesperson Goutam Maity saidVice Chancellor Das however said that the examination boards decision is final and will not be reversedWe will not give in to such demands of the students I have told them categorically during the gherao that the examination will be held offline this time he saidA spokesperson of FETSU Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union said that as classes were held in online mode in the last two years the final semester examination should also be held online PTI SUS ACD ACD
