The Hindu : Varsity web site to help old students get certificates

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Monday, Feb 23, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Madurai

Varsity web site to help old students get certificates

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, FEB.22 . The Directorate of Distance Education of the Madurai Kamaraj University has launched a web site — `mkudde.org' — to help the past students get their certificates. Thousands of mark sheets and certificates are lying unclaimed at the university.

The university has taken the initiative to help the students, who had enrolled in its correspondence courses and wrote examinations but had lost touch with the university afterwards. The site will enable the candidates to get their course certificates, most of them lying idle for decades.

The Vice-Chancellor, P. K. Ponnuswamy, says that thousands of candidates have not collected their certificates from the directorate. Around 90,000 certificates belonging to 64,345 candidates, who wrote examinations between April 1975 and November 2002, remain unclaimed. As there has been no correspondence from these candidates, the certificates are lying with different course sections.

All these certificates have been sorted, computerised and arranged in covers to get them off to the candidates. The DDE has posted details of the on the web site. A candidate, by entering the registration number, can find out whether his certificates are available. The main reason for the stagnation is the failure on the part of the students to intimate to the university the change of address. If his certificates are available, the candidate has to come to the university and clear the dues, if any, and collect them. Steps have been taken for instant location of the mark sheets.

Among the unclaimed certificates, 76,206 are mark statements, 6,965 provisional certificates, 3,405 consolidated mark statements and 3,108 course completion certificates, says the Vice-Chancellor.

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