Guru Nanak Dev University students with job offers in a fix in absence of DMCs

Around 300 students who got hired by MNCs are in a fix now due to non-availability of DMCs, as they were promoted last year on the basis of the cumulative average of their grades of previous semesters due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Approximately 300 students of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) who recently graduated got job offers from multinational companies at handsome packages. However, these students now find themselves in a fix on account of the non-availability of detailed marks certificates (DMCs) of their intermediate semesters, as they were promoted last year on the basis of the cumulative average of their grades of previous semesters as per the directions of the government amid COVID-19 surge.

Some companies offering jobs are finding it difficult to evolve a criterion to hire employees in the absence of concrete and comprehensive evidence of their academic performance in the form of DMCs of all semesters. This has resulted in holding job offers and the students had to turn to the university to look for a solution. “Most of these students had appeared in off-campus recruitments and received job offers. We are working on all possible ways to resolve the issue. The companies are not asking for DMCs but an aggregate of marks. We’re working on it,” said Dr Hardeep Singh, Dean Academic Affairs and Welfare, GNDU.

Concerns were also expressed on the system of conduct of non-proctored email-based examinations of the exit class students wherein question papers and answer sheets were exchanged via e-mails. The practice has not been taken very kindly by students and their employers.

“The GNDU placement cell is in contact with the recruiters and making efforts to sort out the issue. We have already intervened in the matter by sending correspondence to several MNCs,” said Amit Chopra, assistant placement officer, GNDU. We have placed around 700 students from various professional courses through on-campus online recruitments and most recruiters, knowing the special circumstances created by the pandemic,” he said.

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