Punjabi university casual approach comes to fore; results still pending
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in / Chandigarh
One of the prestigious university of north India, Punjabi University Patiala, which is among the premier institutions of higher learning, was established 58 years ago. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India laid foundation of Punjabi University on June 24, 1962. This is the second University in the world to be named after a language, the first being Hebrew University of Israel. 274 Colleges affiliated to it. NAAC has awarded the University ‘Five Star’ grade in the first cycle (2002-07) and ‘A’ grade in the second (2008-13) and the third (2016-23) cycles. Colleges of Patiala, SAS Nagar, Rupnagar, Sangrur, Mansa, Barnala, Faridkot, Bathinda district were affiliated with this university.
Having such a rich past, the present of Punjabi University is in limbo. The university has failed to announce the results of the exam conducted by it in the month of December 2019. Eight months have passed, the university examination department fails to declare the results of certain under graduate, post graduate courses, for which it had taken the examination in December 2019.Till now the examination department has issues only few results.
Students and their parents are in dilemma. A student from Patiala said “tough the December exams are of 1,3,5 semester of under graduate classes, the students are anxiously waiting for their results as their 2,4,6th semester results are based on their 1,3,5th semester marks. Even certain post graduate level exam results are also pending.
Students, who failed in previous exams, having reappear are in catch 22 situation as the university authorities have not taken any decision on reappear also.
Punjabi University Controller of examination Dr Jasvir Inder Singh Khattar said “we have already declared many results and are in a process to declare the pending results in due course of time.”
Following results were declared by Punjabi University Patiala, out of BA, B.Com, B.Sc, MA, M.Com, M.Sc , B.Tech, MBA, L.LB, BCA, BBA etc
September,5,2020
