Demonstrations have been held by means of college students in exceptional universities across West Bengal on Tuesday, annoying on line examinations. At Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, the demonstrations grew to become violent as some college students kicked the door of the vice-chancellor’s office and manhandled a non-teaching staff amid a gherao that went on for hours, prompting the authorities to name in the police.
The students, who had been demonstrating at the state-run varsity’s BT Road campus, claimed that as the syllabus should now not be executed in on line classes, they must be allowed to write the papers from home and now not forced to show up for the examinations in the classroom. “There is no possibility to preserve the tests online, giving in to the needs of students,” vice-chancellor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury said.
As some college students have claimed that they may want to not whole the syllabus, there can be discussions on that, he added. A senior school member of the varsity said, “A scholar who would not get extra than 40 in a 100-mark paper if checks have been held offline, has bought seventy eight in an on-line exam. Obviously, some college students don’t desire to sit for offline exams.” He said the college and the non-teaching team of workers would not bow down to the “unjust demands” of some students.
“Our studies were affected as instructions have been held on-line for two years. If preceding semester exams could be held online, why not now?” Sagnik Banerjee, an agitating undergraduate student, said. Demonstrations had been also held at the Aliah University’s Park Circus campus, Burdwan University and North Bengal University, disturbing on line examinations.
Noted educationist Pabitra Sarkar said, “Online tests are nothing however a farce. There used to be no alternative due to the pandemic in the final two years. If the college students are serious about their studies, they need to provide up this unjustified demand and take a seat for offline tests.” Linguist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri said, “If the college students can come to the campus to demonstrate, why cannot they write the papers in exam centres?”.
