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PU students who failed not to be promoted

Staff Correspondent

They did not clear the first PU supplementary examination

— PHOTO: M.A. SRIRAM

Getting strict: Deputy Director of Pre-University Board Puttaraju and college principals showing the answerscripts of students who failed in the first pre-university supplementary examination, in Mysore on Saturday.

MYSORE: The meeting of principals of pre-university colleges in Mysore district on Saturday decided not to consider the request of parents of those who have failed in the first pre-university supplementary examination to promote them on compassionate grounds and give them an opportunity to complete pre-university education.

Deputy Director of Pre-University Board Puttaraju convened the meeting after students and their parents thronged his office with the request for the past few days.

As many as 1,200 out of 25,000 students who had taken the examination conducted in April 2007 had failed. In the supplementary examination, only 120 students passed.

The families of students who had not passed the supplementary examination had been putting pressure on the office of Deputy Director of the board to declare them pass on compassionate grounds. “The results are final and hence they cannot be reconsidered. for any reason. When this was conveyed to the parents, they did not listen to me and went on urging me to declare their wards as having passed. The meeting of principals was convened to elicit their views and take a final decision,” Mr. Puttaraju said.

“Unsuccessful students had secured single digit marks in the examination.

How is it possible to pass them when the board has set a target to improve the results in the district?” he asked.

Mr. Puttaraju said the board authorities were striving to improve pre-university results in the district. “From the 15th place, the district’s position has reached 12th, and we want to bring it to the tenth position. Hence it is impossible to declare them pass on any grounds,” he said.

The board official said that about 170 principals from colleges across the district expressed their opposition to pass students when they were not competent enough to clear the examination.

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