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 Dec 23 PTI An association of Jadavpur University professors on Thursday wrote to West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Education Minister Bratya Basu requesting them to take immediate steps to fill up vacant posts of dean in arts and engineering faculties of the institute The Jadavpur University Teachers Association also pointed out that absence of chancellors nominees for Comparative Literature and Bengali departments is impeding academic activities There is no permanent dean either in the faculty of Arts or in the faculty of Engineering and Technology for a long time This seriously hampers various academic and administrative activities and functioning the JUTA said in the letters sent separately to Basu and Dhankhar the chancellor of the institute After the amendment of the Jadavpur University Act1981 in 2011 and 2012 the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies Law and Management was created and students have been admitted to various courses but the FISLM cannot award degrees as the universitys statutes have still not been amended JUTA general secretary Partha Pratim Ray said This is likely to cause considerable difficulties for students admitted to various courses of study under this faculty Such students may face problems with their degrees in future In such a situation we request you to either approve the amended statutes or close down this faculty We cannot keep on playing with our students future in this manner for an indefinite period of time Ray said in the letters PTI SUS BDC BDC