Students who wanted to externally pursue School of Languages at Gujarat University turned blue after the web portal put down Urdu and Persian languages from the courses it offers.
Disappointed with the cold response of the university officials, students sought the help of National Students Union of India (NSUI) who wrote to the Vice-Chancellor expressing students concern. In their letter, the NSUI stated, "The university removed Urdu and Persian from the portal itself which is why students panicked. The university later accepted their mistake and assured us to rectify the same."
"We did not get any registration for the subjects. That's why it was pulled out of the system. We made changes and extended the date of filling forms till September 10," Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Himanshu Pandya, he said.
Gufran Shaikh, a resident of Bapunagar was trying to fill for admissions in BA in Urdu online but when he found no option to select the subject, he got paranoid. Speaking about the same, Gufran said, "I want to get admissions in externals for BA in Urdu from School of Languages. If the university fails to run the programme then I will have to change the university, which I do not want. Hence we sought help from NSUI."
Interestingly, GU's School of Languages has witnessed a commendable increase in a number of students as against previous years, in various subjects. Its Hindi department which had recorded 13 and 7 students in 2015 and 2016 has recorded 30 students in 2017 whereas, for Sanskrit, the number has reached to 35 as against 13 in 2016. A similar trend is for Gujarati which had got 41 students in 2016 admitted 52 students in 2017. However, the situation of Persian, Urdu and Prakrit is still of a concern.
STUDENTS, A HARRIED LOT
- Disappointed with the cold response of the university officials, students sought the help of National Students Union of India (NSUI) who wrote to the Vice-Chancellor expressing students concern.
- Gujarat University’s School of Languages has witnessed a commendable increase in a number of students as against previous years, in various subjects.
