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SILIGURI, 5 JULY: The North Bengal University vice-chancellor, Mr Arunabha Basumajumdar, today threatened to de-affiliate all the four private BEd colleges under the university if they did not renew their affiliations and start holding classes for the 2011-12 session.
The V-C told reporters during a Press meet here today that the colleges were playing havoc with the careers of the 332 students, who had applied for admissions, by not starting classes for the 2011-12 session. He said they would soon send a memorandum, signed by 56 newly-admitted students of the colleges, to the division Bench of Kolkata High Court, which is looking into the case of the dispute between the university and the self-financing colleges over the centralised system of admission to B Ed courses. “We will urge the division bench to consider the future of the 332 students, which is at stake due to the dispute, before passing a verdict in the case,” he said.
Mr Basumajumdar, who dismissed the allegations of “highhandedness”, made by the private colleges against the university as “false and fabricated,” said that the process of admission in the self-financing BEd colleges under the university was absolutely legal and the representatives of all the private colleges were present at the meeting during which the resolution to adopt a centralised system of admission was taken. “The colleges are not following the NCTE guidelines since 2005. They have not applied for the mandatory annual renewal of affiliations since 2009. We decided to centralise the process of admission in the eight B Ed colleges under the university mainly to put a cap on tuition fees in these colleges because they charge exorbitantly. We will cancel their affiliations if they do not start holding classes for the new session immediately and follow the rules and regulations of the university,” he said.
The V-C also said that they had written to the authorities of all the four colleges urging them to start classes for the new session, but neither did they comply with the university's request nor did they give any reason for their decision to postpone classes.
Mr Basumajumdar assured that they would look into the issue of admission of students in the private B Ed colleges sympathetically and take suitable steps in the coming weeks to ensure that the students do not lose an academic year.
Mrs Nupur Das, secretary, under-graduate council, NBU, who was also present at the meet, denied that the university had issued a notification on 1 July, cancelling the admissions of 277 students of the colleges, whom the university's centralised B Ed cell had admitted in these institutions on 2, 4, 6 and 9 May on the basis of the counselling held on these dates. “We issued a notification urging only those students, who were planning to get admitted elsewhere to submit the payment receipt of their admission fee at the office of the secretary, under-graduate council and take back the cheques of their admission fee,” she said.
Meanwhile, over 50 newly-admitted students of the four private B Ed colleges served two separate memoranda to Mr Saurav Pahari, sub-divisional officer, Siliguri and the Siliguri MLA, Mr Rudranath Bhattacharya at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m, respectively demanding that all the 277 candidates, whose admissions were cancelled on 1 July, be readmitted along with the 155 candidates, whose names appeared in the second merit list on 13 May. Mr Kuntal Sinha, who led the agitators, told The Statesman that they would launch a large-scale agitation at the Vidyasagar College of Education in Phansidewa near Siliguri on 7 July to press for the start of classes there.
SILIGURI, 5 JULY: The North Bengal University vice-chancellor, Mr Arunabha Basumajumdar, today threatened to de-affiliate all the four private BEd colleges under the university if they did not renew their affiliations and start holding classes for the 2011-12 session.
The V-C told reporters during a Press meet here today that the colleges were playing havoc with the careers of the 332 students, who had applied for admissions, by not starting classes for the 2011-12 session. He said they would soon send a memorandum, signed by 56 newly-admitted students of the colleges, to the division Bench of Kolkata High Court, which is looking into the case of the dispute between the university and the self-financing colleges over the centralised system of admission to B Ed courses. “We will urge the division bench to consider the future of the 332 students, which is at stake due to the dispute, before passing a verdict in the case,” he said.
Mr Basumajumdar, who dismissed the allegations of “highhandedness”, made by the private colleges against the university as “false and fabricated,” said that the process of admission in the self-financing BEd colleges under the university was absolutely legal and the representatives of all the private colleges were present at the meeting during which the resolution to adopt a centralised system of admission was taken. “The colleges are not following the NCTE guidelines since 2005. They have not applied for the mandatory annual renewal of affiliations since 2009. We decided to centralise the process of admission in the eight B Ed colleges under the university mainly to put a cap on tuition fees in these colleges because they charge exorbitantly. We will cancel their affiliations if they do not start holding classes for the new session immediately and follow the rules and regulations of the university,” he said.
The V-C also said that they had written to the authorities of all the four colleges urging them to start classes for the new session, but neither did they comply with the university's request nor did they give any reason for their decision to postpone classes.
Mr Basumajumdar assured that they would look into the issue of admission of students in the private B Ed colleges sympathetically and take suitable steps in the coming weeks to ensure that the students do not lose an academic year.
Mrs Nupur Das, secretary, under-graduate council, NBU, who was also present at the meet, denied that the university had issued a notification on 1 July, cancelling the admissions of 277 students of the colleges, whom the university's centralised B Ed cell had admitted in these institutions on 2, 4, 6 and 9 May on the basis of the counselling held on these dates. “We issued a notification urging only those students, who were planning to get admitted elsewhere to submit the payment receipt of their admission fee at the office of the secretary, under-graduate council and take back the cheques of their admission fee,” she said.
Meanwhile, over 50 newly-admitted students of the four private B Ed colleges served two separate memoranda to Mr Saurav Pahari, sub-divisional officer, Siliguri and the Siliguri MLA, Mr Rudranath Bhattacharya at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m, respectively demanding that all the 277 candidates, whose admissions were cancelled on 1 July, be readmitted along with the 155 candidates, whose names appeared in the second merit list on 13 May. Mr Kuntal Sinha, who led the agitators, told The Statesman that they would launch a large-scale agitation at the Vidyasagar College of Education in Phansidewa near Siliguri on 7 July to press for the start of classes there.
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