PU Vice-Chancellor R.C. Sobti today said that this year’s examination answersheets will have front sheet in the form of OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheet that will reduce the manual work in the evaluation process. He was in the city to attend convocation ceremony at Khalsa College for Women and gave away the degrees to the students.

Besides, in order to introduce more transparency, the colleges will be required to display the internal assessment to the students through notice boards before they are dispatched to the university, said V-C Sobti.

“We are going to upgrade the system of evaluation with this year’s examination by launching the OMR sheet format in which the first sheet will be an OMR sheet and that will reduce a lot of manual work and there will be no scope for error,” said VC Sobti. He also added that more transparency would also be possible in the evaluation process as it will be mandatory for the colleges to display internal assessment to the students before-hand.

Sobti informed that this process would be completed by March 19. While talking about the PU Regional Centre, he said that the he was in favour of expanding the centre and introducing more courses at the centre. “But for that, we need more land in the vicinity of the centre and I would also like to appeal to the alumni of the university to help us expand it into a full-fledged regional centre.”

“The business school at the Regional Centre in Ludhiana is becoming popular and this year we have received about 34,00 applications for 50 seats in the MBA course being run at the centre. So we plan to introduce more courses in addition to existing two, including MBA and LLB,” said Sobti.

Speaking about B.Ed colleges not fulfilling the condition to hire competent staff, Sobti made it clear that if all these colleges failed to fulfill the conditions by June, they would lose their affiliation.