| JU Administration fails to fulfill criteria, closes two courses | | Pol Science, Economic go missing from admission notification | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 2: Finally its failure to fulfill criteria laid by UGC, the University of Jammu has closed two courses being offered by directorate of distance education.
According to admission notification available on university's website, two PG courses viz Economics and Political Science go missing from the list of courses being offered by the DDE.
"Online applications on prescribed format are invited from the eligible candidates for admission to the Post-Graduate PROGRAMME of 1st-Semester in English, Sociology, Hindi, Dogri, Urdu, Commerce and PGDBM through Distance mode for the academic session 2015-16", the notification read.
"These had been added in university's curriculum, without fulfilling norms set by the UGC, as the varsity has failed to fulfil the criteria for affiliation from UGC, the courses have been discontinued", informed sources.
"Post-Graduation in Economics and Political Science is being offered by Directorate of Distance Education (DDE) University of Jammu from session 2014-15, but the study material for these courses is not available with the DDE", sources said, adding that to run these courses, formalities have been completed, and courses were being run in violations of norms.
"UGC had asked, the University to complete all official procedures including compilation of study material for all four semesters, of both these courses, prior to inspection of UGC's team for allowing these courses", sources claimed, adding that it seems difficult for the university to compile study material, which was pending since the courses began.
They further said that it would be shocking for thousands of students who had enrolled themselves for these courses. "It was responsibility of programme coordinators, they should have compiled study material for these courses before starting them. It is negligence on part of coordinator and the Vice chancellor who did not ensure that the guidelines were adhered to", they added.
"How the administration will compensate, those who have enrolled themselves for these courses, and waiting for their admission in second year. Moreover, the courses were offered following huge demands by student community. The chancellor should fix responsibility and take action against erring course coordinators, who went scot free, despite fault on their part", they added. |
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