Around 11 days back, The Tribune carried an article titled “Has PTU become dysfunctional?”.
Any past or present student would agree with each and every word of the article. It’s sad, that a university established in the year 1997 (that’s 12 years now!) does not run any courses in its campus! That’s because the campus was shifted from one place to the other and the buildings have been constructed recently. It has an annual revenue of 300 crore which we could attribute to the thousands of re-evaluation and re-appear forms that are submitted each semester due to a fraudulent and faulty paper checking system.
If you clear the exam after re-evaluation, the university does not even bother to return your money. Results of the previous semester are declared a week before the exams for the current session are due. As far as I know, the university does not even have a vice chancellor.
I still fail to understand why the government does not take any action against this university. I am a student of PTU myself and it is because of this careless attitude of the PTU authorities that the top companies or educational institutions are not even willing to look at profiles of candidates passing out from here.
It is a mess students like myself have chosen themselves to get into and its better we rectify it by working hard and getting out of this rut.
Before I go, I shall leave you with a screenshot of the official Punjab Technical University website (http://ptu.ac.in/). This is a university which grants degrees to thousands and thousands of engineers, MCA’s, BCA’s and they can’t even do a decent enough job themselves.
Screenshot taken on August 20th, 2009.
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