IMPHAL, Feb 6: Students of the Manipur Technical University (MTU) staged a protest in the college campus at Takyelkhongbal in Imphal West district on Tuesday against the alleged irregularities on the part of the authorities of the university in conducting examinations.
The students stormed the administration block of the university at its campus while demanding a fair examination.
The students declared that they will not appear in the upcoming examinations if their demand of conducting a fair examination, is not fulfilled by the authorities.
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The agitating students said that they will not accept conducting the same exam in different modes while alleging that the authorities have been conducting the same exam in offline as well as online modes.
Talking to reporters, the students alleged that the university authorities are arranging online mode examinations for a certain section of students while the same exam is conducted on offline mode for the rest of the students.
The students said that they have no objection in conducting the exam in online or offline mode. But, the exam must be conducted equitably.
They said that students of all the communities were receiving the brunt of the ongoing crisis and the authorities must treat them equally.
The students further alleged unfairness in the conduct of the examinations while claiming that students attending physical classes regularly are getting low marks in the internal assessment while those students who are said to be attending classes on online mode were being given higher marks.
The protest will continue until the demand for conducting the exam equitably is not considered by the administration of the university. The students said that they would not appear in the upcoming exams if the authorities failed to consider their demand. (NNN)
