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Bangalore varsity defends two boards of examiners

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Step has been taken in the interest of students, says Registrar

Bangalore: Bangalore University has defended the constitution of two boards of examiners for the Department of Communication stating that it was done in the interests of the students.

Registrar (Evaluation) of the University T.A. Parthasarathy has, in a rejoinder to a report appearing in these columns on Sunday, said that the appointment of two boards should not be "construed as flouting the rules to mollify two groups" in the Department.

He noted that under the university's examination manual, there is no bar on constituting two separate boards of examiners with independent chairpersons in an academic year as long as their functions are mutually exclusive, but within the framework of the academic calendar. The practice of appointing two separate boards of examiners in an academic year is in vogue for long in Karnatak University, which is also governed by the Karnataka State Universities Act of 2000.

It is the Syndicate of the university that appoints the chairman or chairpersons of the board of examiners on the recommendation of the boards of appointment of examiners as laid down under Section 36 of the KSU Act.

However, Mr. Parthasarathy said: "As the news item rightly points out, the Department of Communication is facing problems due to differences among the faculty members."

The university, particularly its examination branch, is making efforts to ensure that the interests of the students with regard to conduct of examinations and announcement of results are not affected by the "negative impact of these inter-departmental differences," he said

The alternative to constitution of two boards of examiners, before the university was to postpone the examinations "until after an enquiry on the representations/ counter representations by senior faculty members was resolved by a Syndicate committee."

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