Guwahati
A student has been threatened by varsity authority in Assam for writing a social media post criticising the institution’s delay in declaring undergraduate results. Priyanka Dutta, a student at Gurucharan College in Silchar town in Assam, gave the undergraduate final examination in June this year. She appeared at the Common University Entrance Test and secured a position to study a Masters course at Cotton University in Guwahati. However, her parent institution, Assam University, failed to declare the results until today. This has caused Dutta to lose her admission to Cotton University. Depressed by the event, the student took to Facebook and wrote on August 9: If you have a dream to go for higher studies in good colleges, then do not study in the Assam University. It will ruin your dream. I got a chance to study in Cotton University, however I lost the scope as the Assam University could not declare my degree examination results on time. She also questioned the regular delay in declaring the results by the Assam University administration. Dutta mentioned in her subsequent post that, except for Assam University, all other universities in the state are able to provide the examination results on time. This has irked the Controller of Examinations at Assam University, Suprabir Dutta Roy. He sent a letter on August 17 to the Gurucharan College authority to take action against Priyanka Dutta. As the principal of the college, Bibhas Dev, chose not to reply to the letter, Suprabir Dutta Roy sent a second letter to him on August 26.
