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Software glitch delays NIT result publicationKUMUD JENAMANI
NIT, Jamshedpur: Never-ending trouble
Jamshedpur, May 23,2008: Trouble never stops visiting the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here.
A prolonged battle between the acting director and teachers had affected the end-semester exams and now, a software glitch is holding back the results.
NITs across the country were scheduled to announce the results today and all of them except the Jamshedpur institution have declared the results. Here, however, a maiden attempt to tabulate results through a software created trouble.
“Non-compilation of marks through the software is causing a delay in declaration of results. We are following it up and expect to get the results in the next couple of days,” said Akhileswar Misra, the acting director of NIT, Jamshedpur.
He said marks have been collected and tabulation would begin shortly.
Mishra, who is the head of the MCA department, said the institute had tried to use a software to expedite tabulation. “I was striving to bring out the results according to schedule on May 23. But, unfortunately, the results could not be published on time,” said the acting director.
Sources in NIT Teachers’ Association (NITTA), who have been complaining about the director, said the failure to publish the results was due to the autocratic attitude of Mishra.
“Mishra knew that the tabulation would have to be done manually as the software company installing the system concerned was not through with their work. Despite repeated pleas that the software would not work at this stage, the acting director went ahead and tried to tabulate marks using the system,” said a key member of NITTA.
The teachers of the NIT have repeatedly complained that the autocratic attitude of Mishra was hampering functioning of the institution. NITTA had gone on strike for a long period demanding the appointment of a full-time director.
A teacher said after they had cancelled the strike on May 14, NITTA had raised the issue of the acting director’s decision to engage outside teachers for viva and evaluation. “But the acting director did not pay heed to the teachers’ protest and kept on depending on the software for tabulation,” said the teacher.
Sources said students would be in trouble because of the delay in announcement of results.
Almost all students who had appeared in the final year’s examination have been selected for jobs in national and multinational companies.
A sizeable number of students have to submit their certificates or marksheets to their employers by June 10 while others would have to complete the process between mid-June and July 1.
In case the results are not published by then, several budding engineers could be deprived of jobs, they added.
Shekhar Sinha, a final year student, said: “I have got a job in an automobile company and my joining date is June 8. NIT authorities must give me the necessary certificate before that otherwise I will be in a spot.”
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