Pondy Varsity Agrees to Support the Cause of Students and to Continue Affiliation
Port Blair, Sept. 16: As part of the Administration’s continuous endeavour to resolve the DBRAIT issue and for the promotion of quality higher education and academic excellence in all the higher education institutes in A&N Islands, the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS had series of meetings with Professor Gurmeet Singh, Vice Chancellor, Pondicherry University on 13/09/2022 and 14/09/2022. The discussions were very constructive and fruitful.
During the discussion, all the outstanding issues related to all the higher education institutes of A&N Islands including issues of DBRAIT such as conduct of examination for all the Lateral Entry Students, continued affiliation for 2022-23, withdrawal of undertaking for the students, for writing the examination and for re-conduct of examination for those students who have missed examinations due to fear of undertaking were discussed in addition to the student welfare and developmental issues of Higher Education Institute of A&N Administration.
Pondicherry University has already agreed to conduct examination for all lateral entry students. Notification to this effect has been issued on 15th and 16th September. The A&N Administration is taking it up with the Pondicherry university to resolve any issue including undertaking which is unwarranted and affects the future of the students. The matter of conducting the exams in a staggered manner for ease of lateral entry students is also being taken up with the university.
Further, the timetable for the examination has also been notified late in the evening. A formal communication on all other issues discussed will be issued by Pondicherry University shortly.
Since the examination of Lateral Entry students of DBRAIT will be conducted shortly, all the students of DBRAIT have been advised to diligently prepare for the examination and DBRAIT has also been instructed to conduct special classes on students’ request.