GU goof-up sends students to wrong campus
Varsity prints New L J Commerce College’s old address in BCom application form; aspirants, including those from outside the city, end up at the old campus
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Saturday, June 15, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20130615201306150248472318115c6cb/GU-goofup-sends-students-to-wrong-campus.html
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Saturday, June 15, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20130615201306150248472318115c6cb/GU-goofup-sends-students-to-wrong-campus.html
Hundreds of students and their parents were put to inconvenience as Gujarat University printed the old address of New L J Commerce College in the application form sending them to the closed down campus, 12 km away. The college insists it had intimated the university of its change in address, but the university went ahead with printing the form with the wrong address because for it “the college still exists at the old address” of GNFC Info tower, SG Road.
While the officials contest each other’s claim, it is the students and parents who suffer and will continue to suffer until the admission process gets over. Sale and submission of application forms for admission to first year BCom in colleges affiliated with Gujarat University began on Friday and on the very first day nearly 1.5 lakh students procured them. A few hundred of them landed at the college’s old address as directed in the form only to realise that the college has shifted to its new premises Makarba.
The job of redirecting them to the correct address fell on a security man at the tower. “Since morning I have redirected at least 100 people. I am tired of this,” said Ram Singh, the security man employed by an automobile dealer .
FROM STATION, WITH LUGGAGE
The worst hit were the students and parents who had come from other towns and cities. “We have come from Junagadh. From bus stand we came straight here as the form we downloaded showed his address. Now we come to know that the address is wrong and we have to go to 12 km away with this luggage,” said Manoj Salla who had come with his son. Vipul Nanavati and his wife Urmi downloaded the form at their Bharuch residence for their son Dhruv.
Looking at the address, they too landed at the SG Highway office straight from the railway station with their luggage. Local people, too, were a troubled lot, for they too had no clue to the new address. Said Shyam Sharma, who had come from Sardarnagar, “My daughter Sonal and I are searching for the college for more than an hour now. All calls to the telephone numbers given have gone unanswered.” However, defending the college Principal Viral Shah said, “Our college moved to the new campus in 2011. We have followed all the procedure to get the address changed. In fact, we are already getting communication from the university on this address.”
To this, in-charge registrar Rajesh Patel said the university was yet to grant address change permission to the college. “Officially, we till consider the college is functioning at its Info Tower address,” he said. Prof Shah said the college shifted to the new campus in 2011 and the university's Local Inspection Committee has already visited it. “It has already sent its recommendation to the university for the change in address. If the university recognises only the old address, then the LIC should have been going there, not coming over to the new campus. I don’t know why the controversy has cropped up at the time of admission."
While the officials contest each other’s claim, it is the students and parents who suffer and will continue to suffer until the admission process gets over. Sale and submission of application forms for admission to first year BCom in colleges affiliated with Gujarat University began on Friday and on the very first day nearly 1.5 lakh students procured them. A few hundred of them landed at the college’s old address as directed in the form only to realise that the college has shifted to its new premises Makarba.
The job of redirecting them to the correct address fell on a security man at the tower. “Since morning I have redirected at least 100 people. I am tired of this,” said Ram Singh, the security man employed by an automobile dealer .
FROM STATION, WITH LUGGAGE
The worst hit were the students and parents who had come from other towns and cities. “We have come from Junagadh. From bus stand we came straight here as the form we downloaded showed his address. Now we come to know that the address is wrong and we have to go to 12 km away with this luggage,” said Manoj Salla who had come with his son. Vipul Nanavati and his wife Urmi downloaded the form at their Bharuch residence for their son Dhruv.
Looking at the address, they too landed at the SG Highway office straight from the railway station with their luggage. Local people, too, were a troubled lot, for they too had no clue to the new address. Said Shyam Sharma, who had come from Sardarnagar, “My daughter Sonal and I are searching for the college for more than an hour now. All calls to the telephone numbers given have gone unanswered.” However, defending the college Principal Viral Shah said, “Our college moved to the new campus in 2011. We have followed all the procedure to get the address changed. In fact, we are already getting communication from the university on this address.”
To this, in-charge registrar Rajesh Patel said the university was yet to grant address change permission to the college. “Officially, we till consider the college is functioning at its Info Tower address,” he said. Prof Shah said the college shifted to the new campus in 2011 and the university's Local Inspection Committee has already visited it. “It has already sent its recommendation to the university for the change in address. If the university recognises only the old address, then the LIC should have been going there, not coming over to the new campus. I don’t know why the controversy has cropped up at the time of admission."
