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Correspondence dept: Internal assessment system abolished

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Posted: Jan 09, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST

Chandigarh, January 8 A Number of issues were discussed at the PU Syndicate meeting on Tuesday. The Syndicate has decided to abolish internal assessment for second and third year students of B Com and BA courses in the Department of Correspondence Studies. The abolition of internal assessment has been a long-standing demand.

In another decision, the Syndicate also accepted a report concerning the merger of Department of Campus Sports and Directorate of Sports was accepted. A committee under the chairmanship of I S Sandhu, Director Sports-cum-Additional Deputy Commissioner, UT had been constituted on the issue. The committee had recommended that the Department of Sports and the Directorate must be put under administrative and financial control of the Director Sports.

The Syndicate also deferred the issue of imposing penalty on the principal of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26 for wrongly awarding zero marks in the practical and internal assessment of a candidate. Brinder Dhillon, a first year student at the Department of Laws was granted admission. His admission was under a cloud of controversy, as he was allegedly not present for counselling.

The Syndicate has decided that the professors in the Dental Institute will be made a part of the Medical Faculty. It also approved the creation of certain add-on courses at Government College, Sector 46.

The Syndicate has also accepted the decisions taken by the Board of Finance.

Meanwhile, Professor A K Jafri, Professor of Zoology (Retd), Aligarh Muslim University and Professor Harjit Singh, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University have been nominated to the PU Senate till October 31.

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