Students, officials meet ADM for solution

LUCKNOW: As many as 148 students pursuing engineering and law courses in the Amity University are up in arms against the university administration, alleging that they are deliberately not being promoted. The protest has reached such a level that the district administration has now pitched in to find a solution.

The students, all debarred within the last year, have alleged that the university administration has followed different promotion criteria for different students--an allegation which the university has denied. However, the university upholds that the students were debarred as per the newly introduced year back policy.

“All students were made to give an undertaking last year that they would abide by the new year-back policies. Now that they have faced action for their non-seriousness, they blame us,” said a university official.

Why would a private uni- versity debar students unless there was a valid reason, he asked.

Meanwhile, the agitated students, who protested on the campus too, approached the district magistrate along with senior administrative and academic officials of the university .

Umesh Mishra, additional district magistrate (trans Gomti), after listening to both the parties, asked the students to give their complaints in writing .

He also asked university officials to ensure that there was no bending of rules in some cases.

The students, after meeting the administrative officials, have demanded that they be given a chance to be promoted. “We will sit in the examination and abide by the new rules,” a student said.

However, amidst the administration trying to find a middle path, the university’s earlier stand of not promoting the students still stands.