Scores of law students from Central University of Kashmir (CUK) Monday held a protest here alleging authorities of playing with their future by issuing an ‘ill timed’ date-sheet for exams with back-to-back papers.
The 8th semester BALLB students of Law Department assembled at Press Enclave shouting slogansdemanding that the date-sheet be revised so that their exams can be conductedsmoothly.
“On 5th July the university issued date sheet in theevening, despite knowing that two days are not enough the university went onwith the date sheet with a gap of two days. The irony is that first paper wasscheduled on 8th July when the whole valley is shut, not even half of the classshowed up for exams because most of the students live in other districts. As amark of protest we did not sit in 8th July’s paper and we want date sheet to berevised,” said one of the protesting students.
“Apart from this, there are some back-to-back papers thatneed at least a couple of days to be revised are not given even a single day,this is sheer injustice.”
The aggrieved students say that this was the first that thedate sheet was drawn in this manner for the 8thsemester.
“The university always gave 10 to 15 days before first paperwith a proper gap between the papers. The issue is that three of our studentshave been selected in a moot court competition abroad that is scheduled laterthis month. To our understanding that is the reason we are being forced to sitin exams and finish it off quickly,” said another protesting student whodeclined to be named.
“We told the authorities to conduct exam of selectedstudents separately but they are making the whole batch to suffer.”
The protesting students maintained that they would not sitin the exams unless the date sheet is revised.
Gulafroz Jan,Coordinator Department of Law,Central University of Kashmir denied allegations by students saying that “they were given ample opportunityfor preperations.”
“We issued date sheet on 2nd July giving studentsenough time. We were supposed to conduct exams earlier and date sheet was to beissued on 20 June, but for the convenience of students we postponed it andstill students are making excuses,” she said. On complaints of back toback papers, she said “only one paper was back to back and that too anoptional paper,”