Evening courses blamed for session jam at JnU

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JnU Correspondent :
Jagannath University (JnU) is one of the remarkable universities which is noted as a session jam less university in the country but in the recent time, evening and commercial courses in several departments have been impeding the regular activities in some departments of the university, it is widely alleged.
 Following the situation, students of different departments are facing session jam over the last few years while the students of evening programmes are getting finished fast their courses in comparing with the regulars.
Contacted with several evening course holding departments, it is learnt that regular students have to finish six months semester in eight or nine months. And the evening commercial course is completed in just three and half months because the evening courses are quite profitable and the teachers are paying more attention to it.
According to source, the first batch of English Department’s evening session class began on January 27 and the second batch’s on 19th May. The semester of first batch students ended in just three and a half months. In contrast, the students of the same department’s 2009-10 academic years yet to get their Master’s result.
Their semester took about nine months . Students of the 2010-11 academic years are now in the Masters 2nd Semester . They have to spend 8 months time. They are not alone, the same situation to the students of the 2012-2013 session. They still have not ended 7th semester. The students of this session have studied for one and a half year session. They also took an average of 8 months to finish the rescuers. The students of the 2013-14 academic years ended the sixth semester final on May 18. They are suffered with a 6-month session jam.
Pilu Halder, a student of 2012-13acdemic yearof English Department told this correspondent , “We have to face session jam in every semester. The situation has gone in such level that session jam is a normal matter in our department.”
Referring to upcoming 38th BCS exam, Nasrin Farhana Khanom who is also student of the same department urged that most of our friends belonging other departments are ready to sit in the 38th BCS examination but we have just completed 7th semester!
“We do not see the authority concerned for taking necessary measures to fix our long session jam” she added.
It is learned that evening courses in English, Marketing, Finance, Management, Accounting and Information Systems, Computer Science and Engineering, Law and Economics have been started at few years earlier. The students of evening courses are required a huge amount of money. For the profitable evening courses, though teachers are bound to take class regularly, are not seen in the class often. They spend busy time in the evening courses.
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