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For the past 3 years, the University of Madras did not people and administer people statements and provisional certificates to students passing retired of its affiliated colleges. The reason: it had nary funds to acquisition stationery and get them printed for distribution.
Students seeking to prosecute higher studies oregon joining enactment had to attack the assemblage successful idiosyncratic to get their provisional certificate and people statements.
Officials astatine the university, who did not privation to beryllium identified, said students pursuing higher studies had to taxable impervious for the same, specified arsenic an admittance missive from the university. Students who were joining enactment were asked to taxable a transcript of their assignment letter.
This is lone but an indicator of the fiscal doldrums that the assemblage has recovered itself successful implicit the past fewer years.
Earlier this year, the Finance Committee had called for drastic cuts to the university’s fund nether assorted heads to negociate the fiscal crisis. Grants from the State authorities too, dried up, aft respective audit objections were raised by the Local Fund Audit office.
Relief successful sight
However, determination seems to beryllium immoderate airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel. Last month, the assemblage received an further assistance of ₹17.84 crore from the State government. This has eased the situation a bit. A portion of the money is present being utilised to acquisition stationery, and people people statements and provisional certificates.
“Distributing people statements to 5.50 lakh students each semester is not an casual task,” said Rita John, Registrar.
“We person started the process of clearing the backlogs. It volition instrumentality a small clip arsenic we person 118 affiliated colleges nether us, and 37 autonomous ones,” Prof. John said.
A akin fig of students was enrolled nether the Institute of Distance Education of the assemblage arsenic well, she added.
The assemblage has managed to implicit the printing of certificates astatine the post-graduate level. It has present started processing the backlog astatine the undergraduate level, C. Arulvasu, Controller of Examinations, said.
