Gujarat Technological Univ denies student from taking remedial exams

News- DNA 

Life could not have got any tougher for Hitesh Jadeja, a student of Masters of Engineering at SS Engineering College in Bhavnagar.

On Wednesday night his six-day-old son passed away and his wife is yet to recover from the mental trauma. As if this was not enough, he was not allowed by Gujarat Technological University (GTU) to take remedial exams which would have made him eligible to appear for the third semester exam of the course.

Jadeja told DNA that despite the personal crisis he visited GTU officials requesting them to allow him to take the remedial exam but to no avail. According to Jadeda, as he had been allowed to keep terms (ATKT) in first and second semester exams in five subjects he needed to appear in the remedial examination taken by the GTU. If he cleared this exam he would be eligible to take the third semester exam in December.

“I had to appear for three subjects in the remedial exam.I had also filled the forms provided by GTU and paid Rs 300 as exam fee. To my horror, the three subjects whose exams I have to take are not included in the time-table published by the GTU. If GTU does not allow me to sit for the exams I will lose a crucial year,” he said.

DNA tried to contact GTU’s examination officer GP Vadodaria but he didn’t respond to the calls.