Technical university students stage demonstration

AGITATING STUDENTS ACCUSED UNIVERSITY ADMIN OF NOT EVALUATING ANSWERSHEETS PROPERLY AND DEMANDED REVALUATION.

LUCKNOW: Students of APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University staged a demonstration on the university campus on Monday in protest against alleged gross anomalies in ‘carry over’ examination.

Agitating students accused the university administration of not evaluating answer-sheets properly and demanded revaluation.

On Monday after noon, a large number of students of the university staged a sit-in when their demand to meet the vice chancellor of the university was turned down. Students wanted to apprise the VC of their complaint and alleged under -valuation of their answer sheets.

Students alle ged that in subjects in which they had expected 75% to 80% marks, they were shocked to get only a few marks.

The students demanded revaluation of the answer sheets and making them available online.

Prashant Srivastava, who was leading the agitation, accused the university administration of being insensitive to the students’ cause.

Later in the day, the students met the examination controller and apprised him of their concern.

They ended the agitation after the examination controller assured to resolve the issue within a week.

Prominent among those present on the occasion were Ashish Dubey, Nitesh Singh, Vikas Pandey and others.