Thousands of engineering students would be losing one academic year. Mumbai University has issued a circular stating that students can be allowed to appear for their fourth year semester exams as per the old syllabus only in the 2015-16 academic year after they clear their ATKT (allow to keep term) exams.
Thousands of engineering students would be losing one academic year. Mumbai University has issued a circular stating that students can be allowed to appear for their fourth year semester exams as per the old syllabus only in the 2015-16 academic year after they clear their ATKT (allow to keep term) exams.
A division bench of justice VA Naik and justice MR Bhatkar accordingly disposed of a petition filed by a student, Krutika Sakhare, and others seeking directions to the university to allow them to appear for the VII and VIII semester exams as per the old syllabus in this academic year.
Appearing for the university advocate Rui Rodriguez submitted a circular dated March 3, which gives two options to the students. One is for those students who clear the first, second and third years as per the revised 2007 and the old syllabus. They will be allowed to enter the VII and VIII semester in 2015-16 as per old syllabus. Second, those students who have passed first and second years but failed in not more than five heads in their V and VI semester exams. These students will be allowed to enter the VII and VIII semesters in 2015-16 academic year as per old syllabus.
Thus, students will have to clear their backlog exams and then appear for the next semester in 2015. They cannot attend the exams scheduled in May this year. Sakhare had moved the court against the MU ordinance of 2013, which makes it mandatory for engineering students to appear for their fourth year exams, as per the new syllabus.
They wanted the university to allow them to appear for their VII and VIII semester exams in the same academic year of 2014-2015 after clearing ATKT, as it was allowed in the year 2009, by issuing a circular.
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