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BPUT relaxes class promotion policy

BHUBANESWAR: In a step what could have been termed as a reprieve to beleaguered engineering students, Academic Council of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) decided to relax in its class promotion policy.

From now on, BPUT would allow students to get promoted from first year to second year even if they failed to clear five out of 12 papers. Earlier, it was a mandatory for students not to be failed in more than four subjects for elevation to second year.

"The decision was taken keeping in mind that many students come from rural background. They take time to acclimatise in engineering colleges," BPUT Vice-Chancellor Omkar Nath Mohanty said emerging from the ‘extra-ordinary meeting of the Academic Council’ held here on Friday.

Due to the relaxation in the promotion policy, which was dubbed as year-back-system by students, about 700 engineering students were likely to get the relief, he said.

Moreover, BPUT estimates that about 1500 students would be benefited due to a slew of measures announced by the council.

The Council also declared to issue Course Completion Certificates to students who would have prospects of getting employed but yet to clear all subjects.

"We will mention all the subjects in the certificate, a student studies under university. The subjects, which are not cleared by students, will also be mentioned in the certificates," Mr. Mohanty said.

The Council also decided to constitute a committee to go into details of the aspects including syllabus, examination schedule, declaration of results and transparency in engineering education.

The committee would examine systems being adopted by Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and submit its recommendation within four weeks, Industry Secretary Ashok Dalwai said.

He said the committee would comprise two professors from BPUT, one each from Indian Institute of Technology, National Institute for Information Technology, All India Council for Technical Education, State Government officer and registrar of BPUT.

"We will also seek suggestions from students’ representatives, who could be taken in visit to other States for making themselves aware about to examination procedures adopted by others," Mr. Dalwai said.

On poor quality of faculties, the academic council decided to expedite the teachers’ training programme.

Moreover, the students would have to sign a contract with the university on attending classes, discipline and adherence to guidelines during their time of admission, Mr. Dalwai said.

The industry secretary also said the university would also provide soft skill development courses to the students who would not clear the examinations at one go so that they would not waste one-year.

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