RTMNU’s summer examinations already delayed by two months
   Date :28-Apr-2023

RTMNU 
 
 
Staff Reporter
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University’s (RTMNU) has declared the timetable of its Summer 2023 examinations, but these examinations are already delayed by two months. Normally, the examinations start on March 15. University has vowed that it would try to complete the examination process by May 30, but according to experts, that was not possible.
On one hand university is planning several new things like pushing research, conducting campus interviews, making all its departments autonomous, taking efforts to provide the status of one campus public university to its own college -- Laxminarayan Institute of Technology. On the other, it is ignoring examination section, leading to a mess in this particular department. The sufferers are the students. The results of Winter examinations 2022 are not declared after the passage of 90 days, the marksheets of 4 lakh students are not printed for the last one and a half years. Now to add to the woes of students it has delayed the schedule of Summer examinations. According to highly placed sources, university should have started the process of submitting the examination forms by December, 2022 for the Summer-23 examinations. But, it has started the process now. According the sources, university has not only made students to suffer but lost its own revenue.
Considering the number of students appearing for the examination had university been started the process of submitting the applications by December 2022, it would have earned a revenue of Rs 40 to Rs 50 crore. But the unnecessary dispute of Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation (MKCL) and Promarc made university and students both suffer. The delay in starting of the examinations would further delay the result process and the next admissions of students too. According to sources, university has its own department Inter Institutional Computer Centre (IICC) but it is under-utilised. If university uses its services, it does not need to take help from any outer body. Dr Praful Sable, Director of Board of Examinations and Evaluation told ‘The Hitavada’, “The declaration of results has started and marksheets too would be delivered to students soon. There was some technical difficulty. Now we have found the solution to it.”