In a relief to thousands of first-year (first and second semester) engineering students under the Visvesvaraya Technological University, the high court on Monday directed the university to announce a special supplementary exam within a week for students, who have four are more subjects pending.
Justice Ram Mohan Reddy made it clear that the students should pass all their pending subjects in the first two semesters and only then will they be eligible to get admissions to the third semester. The university rules state that those first year students who have four or more subjects pending cannot move to the third semester.
The court dismissed the petitions of all other senior students who had challenged the VTU’s carryover system, which states that to be eligible for admission to the fifth semester, engineering students in non-autonomous colleges have to clear all the subjects of the first two semesters, and clear all the subjects of the fourth and fifth semesters for admission to the seventh semester.The court provided some relief for first year students, as they are new to the course.
They are being given an opportunity only with the condition that they would pass in the supplementary exam to be conducted. Court observed that students should be in the college studying hard and not on streets.