Bihar student’s exam admit card bears Ganesha’s photo
PATNA: If the admit card downloaded from the website of a Bihar university is anything to go by, lord Ganesha was to write the exam of an undergraduate commerce student in Bihar!
The Lalit Narayan Mithila University (LNMU) in Darbhanga district, 145km north-east of Patna, has dispensed through its website an admit card bearing the photograph and signature of Ganesha.
Krishan Kumar Roy, a B.Com (Hons) first year student of JN College, Nehra, had to do some leg work at the eleventh hour after discovering that his admit card contained Ganesha’s photograph and signature. He was however, allowed to write the university examinations, which commenced from October 4.
“I had to submit relevant papers and make several rounds of my college for the past month because of my faulty admit card...The uni- versity seems to be running at the mercy of God if, instead of mine, God’s photograph and signature appears [on the admit card]),” Roy said.
The university distanced itself from the controversy.
“The mistake was not at our end but that of the cyber café where the student had gone to submit his exam form online. At our university, all exam forms have to be submitted online,” LNMU registrar Mustafa Kamal Ansari told HT.
“In any case, the said card was not valid till the same was verified and countersigned by the college principal. We have instructed principals to verify and countersign all cards downloaded from our website before any candidate is allowed to appear in exams,” he added. The registrar confirmed the fault was rectified and the student allowed to write the exam.
Lalit Narayan Mithila University is among the 16 state-run universities in Bihar.