KSLU Protest: University, Students Union adamant on their respective stands

Karnataka State Law University's (KSLU) students are continuing their protest day and night against the university's decision to conduct the offline examination, read here to know more.

Karnataka State Law University's (KSLU) students protest against the university's decision to conduct offline classes started on Monday. Since then, the students have been protesting day and night so that the university takes its decision back and give marks on basis of other modes of examinations as recommended by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India.

George Thomas Lenthaparambil, one of the protesting students, has told shiksha.com  "The university is planning to conduct an offline examination, and if they conduct the exam in pen and paper mode it will delay our academic year, there is already a delay of six months. UGC in July had notified that the marks can be given on the basis of previous semester marks and internal marks assessment. We are protesting in Hubballi and Bengaluru. Both men and women are protesting day and night since Monday and one person is also on hunger strike. His health condition is also not good."

While responding to what's the university's stand on this, George said "The university is adamant on conducting the offline examination. As per the university, they had conducted an online survey and based on that survey most of the students opted for offline examination. The university is claiming that they do not have the infrastructure for conducting online examination and it is not true because if they do not have the infrastructure, how they conducted the online classes earlier."

National Students Union of India (NSUI), Karnataka is supporting the KSLU students in their protest. shiksha.com also spoke to Manish G Raj, State General Secretary & All Universities In-Charge, NSUI Karnataka. He said, "We will request students to boycott examination on an individual scale and if it will not work out then we will call for a university bandh which means we will have big agitation in front of every law college wherein we will obstruct student from writing their examination."

"The University is being adamant and they are going ahead with the offline examination and their question paper is also ready. Even though the vice-chancellor is considering, but there is huge pressure from the law minister Madhuswamy who wants the university to conduct the offline examinations."

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