By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, NOV 28: After the 15-day deadline served to the North Eastern Hills University (NEHU) expired, the Students’ Bar Association (SBA) on Monday threatened to launch an agitation against the university for failing to redress the problems faced by law students and its affiliated colleges.
The two important demands of the SBA are delay in announcing the results and inconsistency in awarding of marks by the teachers to the students of the three years LLB course.
The SBA, however, claims that the result of the NEHU law students are declared within a span of only one month starkly implying that the university is heavily tilted in favour of its own students while failing to apply the same yardstick to law students of other colleges.
SBA president Peter A Dohkrut on Monday informed reporters that NEHU authority has failed to respond to their memorandum that have listed their demands and submitted last month.
“We, therefore, decided to go for agitation against this discriminatory attitude of the NEHU authority,” Dohkrut said while informing that the issue would also be taken up with both centre and state governments for necessary interventions.
Dohrut said their demands include late declaration of results, prejudice in the marking system and introduction of internal assessment were some of the issues raised by the SBA.
He said NEHU needs to resolves these problems and ensure uniformity in the system.
Alleging that the NEHU is violating the fundamental rights and right to equality, Dohkrut said, “By delaying to announce our results for eight months, many of us have been deprived of appearing in the Bar examination, which is conducted twice a year.”
He revealed but that is not the case with NEHU law students as their results are declared within a span of only one month. He further alleged there have been inconsistent in awarding marks by the teachers towards the students of the three years LLB course.
To buttress this allegation he said till now the teachers who evaluated the papers have under-rated the students of three years course making it difficult for them to score 60 per cent.
He said last year only two students cleared all the papers out of 109 Shillong Law College students of the 6th semester which means 99.8 per cent were declared unsuccessful.
However, he revealed, after an RTI was filed it was found that there was a uniform marking system that even a good answer script was awarded the same marks with the low average answer scripts.
He also said that the internal marks for the students of the three years LLB course should be given like the system prevalent in NEHU and other universities.
The NEHU students received 40 per cent internal assessment marks whereas they are deprived of such privilege, Dohkrut said.
He informed that the college authority had earlier taken up the issue with the NEHU from time to time but nothing was done.
“The state government is also not doing anything,” he said while stating that the SBA would soon take up the matter with the Higher and Technical Minister Roshan Warjri.
He also added that the association will also jointly take up the issue with the students studying in law colleges in Jowai, West Jaintia Hills and Tura, West Garo Hills, who are also facing the same problems.
When we levelled a charged or demand let us be factual and correct- which will make the demand be more legitimate. NEHU law result is or was never declared within a span of 1 months. While SBA allege that NEHU favor its own students, dont SBA realized they are part and partial of NEHU(affiliations) just like St. Edmunds, Anthony, etc.