LOW ATTENDANCE: 100 STUDENTS OF KES SHROFF COLLEGE NOT ALLOWED TO APPEAR FOR SEMESTERS

Over 100 students of Kandivali Education Society (KES) Shroff College, Kandivali (west) are not being allowed to appear for semester examinations starting from Thursday due to low attendance. Parents and students protested outside the college on Wednesday but college claimed attendance is an important criteria and they cannot entertain any kind of indiscipline in terms of attendance as they had warned students in advance. Around 105 students of First Year Bachelor of Commerce (FYBCom) claimed they are not being allowed to appear for second semester examination (Sem II) which is the final exams of their academic year. Students revealed they have been denied because their attendance is 50%. But students protested stating other colleges are allowing students with 50% attendance to appear for examination. Meet Rajtopad, a student said, “We admit we have low attendance as we did not attend some lectures throughout the academic year. But all colleges of the city are allowing students with 50% attendance to appear for examination then why is our college disallowing us.” Authorities of college stated as per the Mumbai University (MU) rule, students should have minimum attendance of 75%. In addition, they had already warned students about low attendance. Lily Bhushan, Principal of KES Shroff College, said, “As per university rule the attendance should be 75% but we have still lowered this and considered minimum attendance till 60%. We cannot allow students with low attendance as 50% as we had already warned students about low attendance.” Parents claimed students will waste an entire academic year if they are not allowed to appear for the exam.