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Infrastructure in colleges poor, say BPUT students

BHUBANESWAR: Faced with criticism over their alleged recent involvement in vandalism in the capital city, engineering students of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) on Thursday said they fared badly in examinations due to the pitiable education infrastructure in their colleges.

At a press conference convened a day before the crucial meeting of academic council of BPUT, the students said university authorities had put ‘mindless’ examination schedule in place ignoring practical difficulties being faced by them.

The students charged that existing pool of faculties in their colleges were not equipped with enough experience to impart teaching on tough technical papers.

"The BPUT has also no system in place to ensure selection of right candidates into panel of faculties in private colleges. When they have failed on this front, it is not prudent fix a stringent year-back policy for students." Subhasish Samantray, a student, said.

Students who assembled under the banner of All Orissa BPUT Students’ Association said, "technical papers are tough, but the BPUT schedules examinations in such way some time we appear 12 papers in six days. Moreover, we are provided very little time before examinations get under way."

Advocating withdrawal of year-back system, students said there should be a provision of clearing all papers within four years and no student should be held back in a junior class.

Apologizing for the recent violence in the capital city, the students said they jumped to spree of damaging public property only after they were instigated by some non-students. "It was non-students who initiated the violence. Since there were about 4,000 students, situation slipped out of control," they explained.

Private engineering colleges have mushroomed in the State ever since revolution in information technology took place in the country. There are about 20 private engineering colleges in and around the capital city alone compared to five government engineering colleges across the State. The State has total 36 private engineering colleges where about 15,000 engineering students take admission every year.

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