The Hindu

• About 12,000 students will take the degree examinations
• Many colleges did not submit admission statements on time, says Vice-Chancellor

Mangalore, Oct 25: Degree colleges in the city were put in a quandary when they received incomplete or blank hall tickets from Mangalore University on Tuesday evening with barely 36 hours to go for the first semester examination to begin. They had only a few hours to get the hall tickets ready for distribution by Wednesday morning. About 12,000 students will take the BA, B Sc, BBM and other degree examinations from Thursday.

The colleges were given to understand that the hall tickets would be prepared by the university. Their representatives carried the same impression when they were called to the university to collect them on Tuesday. But the university handed over incomplete hall tickets. They came with the instruction that the hall tickets should be completed by the colleges. The colleges had no option but to take the help of their staff members to do so. They managed to fill in the hall tickets in a day. Some of them even called back the teachers who were on leave.

 The hall tickets had to be handwritten. When the college confronted the university, officials justified it saying the registration forms submitted by the colleges had not come in time. One of the staff members of the college, who did not want to be identified, said that forms had been submitted on time. The college showed the date of receipt given by the university.

Besant College in Kodialbail and SDM College also in the region faced similar problems. The colleges showed some hall tickets that had photographs of the students but without names. Some did not even have registration numbers. The principals are hoping that the manual entries made by its staff are in order. Luckily, the autonomous colleges did not go through this problem as they had their own hall tickets.

Vice-Chancellor of the university K M Kaveriappa told The Hindu that many colleges had gone in for late admissions and had taken their own time in sending admission statements. The number of new colleges too had gone up increasing the pressure on the university whose staff strength had remained static. The registrar had been transferred and his replacement was yet to take charge yet. A professor was now holding charge. These constraints had forced the university to ask the colleges to fill the details in the hall tickets. Dr. Kaveriappa said that this problem would not recur in future.