PU cancels exam centre status of Ferozepur college

CHANDIGARH: It took Panjab University over 150 copying cases and an attack on its flying squad outside the institute to swing into action and cancel examination centre status of Guru Nanak College, Ferozepur, for its ongoing undergraduate exams.
This followed the issue being raised in PU syndicate meeting on Tuesday. The centre would be shifted to RSD College in Ferozepur for the remaining exams.
However, the step was thought to be insufficient by some. One of the syndicate`s members, Rabinder Nath Sharma, said the university should have acted earlier as there were blatant violations of rules at the centre with a lot of mass copying taking place. ``Timely action would have ensured that there was no attack on the flying squad members,`` he added.
On May 16, senior lecturer of DM College, Moga, Deepak Kaushal, who was deputed at Guru Nanak College, was attacked by some unidentified people after he filed an unfair means case against some of the students who were found copying. Another syndicate member said as there were many UMCs in the college, the centre status should have been cancelled long back.
``Exams are going to end and cancelling the status at this point won`t serve any purpose,`` the syndicate member added.
Sources stated that PU was yet to decide whether the college would be blacklisted and barred from holding exams in the future.