KANPUR: Furore engulfs the Indian Institute of Technology as the institution's administration has decided to terminate as many as 135 students for failing to do well in examinations. This decision was taken at the institute’s senate meeting here on Monday. A total of 150 cases related with the students were received at the Senate meeting.
Although the students have maintained that they approached their professor with leave application yet they got termination order. They have been given one-week time to submit their response. Afterwards, a final decision will be taken on December 31, 2018.
They also stated that each professor granted them leave barring one. The students in the meantime left for their interview. This caused one professor to give zero marks while other professors took the exam of the students on a later date. The matter will be discussed in another meeting on the year's end. Mahindra Agarwal, deputy director, IIT-K said that those who failed to perform satisfactorily in the past and had a bad track record would be terminated permanently. Others would be reinstated.
The Senate in its meeting made it clear that these terminated students were failing repeatedly. There were 46 undergraduate students and 90 students belonged to PG classes and PhD. It was also decided at the meeting that the strength of the seats for PhD seekers gets increased from this session.
