In a bid to check the fake marks card mafia, the Bangalore University (BU) for the last two years has brought in a new security change that includes the photo of the candidate on the marks sheet.
However, this new change now has put the future of hundreds of students in the dark.
As per the rule, colleges coming under the BU are required to send the photos of students to the university. However, thousands of students are now approaching the university complaining they have been sent marks card without their photos on them.
What is more baffling to the students is that in some cases, the university even has forgotten to print the marks on the card.
Because of these glaring discrepancies, the fate of students belonging to five colleges coming under the BU is now in jeopardy as these marks cards are technically invalid and of no use to the students.
Recently a delegation led by several college principals and lecturers met with B Thimmegowda, the Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University and raised their concern with him.
The delegation reportedly told the University that due the BU’s failure to provide students with duly printed marks cards and in spite of completion of graduation, students are being forced to wait for marks cards, for no fault of theirs.
Besides this, now authorities are asking students to shell out ₹ 180 extra for printing marks cards which is not right, and authorities should address this problem at the earliest in the interest of students, Mutturaj, Principal of Vijayanagar First Grade College told Kannada Prabha.
The BU vice-chancellor but now has blamed the college and students.
“Colleges have been instructed to provide photos before printing of marks cards and since photos were not provided by colleges, such marks cards were printed without photos,” B Thimmegowda said.
“Now colleges are coming forward with photos and this problem would be soon addressed and authorities would decide whether or not to take fees for photos from government college students, “ he added.
