BMS sem V students have urged the VC to intervene into the issue of severe discrepancies in the result Financial Management paper

The BMS (Bachelor of Management studies) students, victims of a  “shockingly poor” result have now decided to approach the VC once again. The result on 7th Feb had proved to be a nightmare for a large number of students of Bachelor of Business management with more than 50 percent students out of total of around  12000 students failing; most of them in Financial Management paper with marks in “single digits”.  Out of 109 students in Burhani college, 60 students have failed, out of which 53 have not cleared the FM paper. 10 students had less than 10 marks, and one even had zero.  Similar is the case with other colleges too and the result varies from 20 to 50 per cent. Students who have more than 70 per cent overall percentage have also fallen prey to this anomaly.

Even professors accept the fact that there was ambiguity in the model answers which could be a reason for the miserable failing of such a big number of students.  There are cases where students have been marked absent despite having answered the paper.

The students had written a letter to the University officials bringing to their notice this unusual result and urging them to look into the matter. Controller of Examination Padma Deshmukh had asked the students to apply for revaluation and had asked the computer department to get the paperwise passing rate and assured to fix the anomaly if any.  But in practice, it takes a month to get the photocopy and then the students can apply for revaluation. And the reexamination is scheduled to be held on 9^th of April. Secondly, according to the existing rule of revaluation, the students who have scored less than 40 per cent of minimum passing marks can not apply for revaluation. So now the students have decided to submit a letter with signature of BMS students from various colleges urging the VC to intervene in this matter and first of all allow all those who are willing to apply for revaluation, and secondly to order an re assessment of the papers because the suspected anomaly would badly affect the future of a large number of students.

Letter to V.C.

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Charter of Demands of the Students of Mumbai University

A sixteen points charter of demands have been submitted on 21st Feb by a delegation of students of the different departments of the University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus, along with the charter of demands of the different departments, under the banner of University Community for Democracy and Equality (UCDE), to the university authorities. This charter has been prepared during a two weeks long class-to-class campaign and was submitted along with the signatures of around 1000 students in support of the charter. A delegation of students also met with Chancellor and Education Minister to raise their problems. Main demands of the students are as follows:

1. Implement complete financial transparency.

2. Start the remedial classes and bridge courses and take all necessary steps to ensure its smooth functioning.

3. Arrange for translation and publication of latest and essential study material into Marathi and Hindi by the University Press.

4. Earn and learn programme be made more student friendly; timely payment and increase in the funding for the programme, inclusion of more jobs in the programme, i.e. translation, typing, recording for visually handicapped etc.

5. Make provisions for active functioning of Students' Grievance redressal Cell.

6. Installation of suggestion and complaint boxes in each department.

7. Construction of new hostels as soon as possible for which the University has sufficient land and funds.

8. Build a students' activity centre and till its construction, a temporary space should be made available to all students.

9. Construction of well equipped Gymkhana.

10. Improve the condition of the lecture complex and other buildings as required.

11. Library be kept open 24 hours everyday with lending facility for at least 12 hours; lending section for every department; students be allowed to borrow more books at a time without charging extra deposit.

12. Regular updating of the university website; notifications and circulars be displayed on the notice boards of each department.

13. Regarding revaluation and ATKT:

(a)  Results of revaluation be declared before the last date of application for re-examination.

(b) Refunding of the revaluation fees if the student passes the respective paper after revaluation.

14. Filling up of the permanent post of teachers in various departments.

15. Provision of a system of teachers’ assessment by the students.

16. V.C., Pro V. C. and Resistrar should be accessible for the students of the Kalina campus in the campus itself.

Students learn from varsity’s errors, become aware, vocal - Hindustan times

Students learn from varsity’s errors, become aware, vocal - Hindustan times