Personal Note:: On failing under-grads academic results of Rajiv Gandhi University

Need for probe into RGU result

Appalling; unspeakable; terrible; inexcusable; unforgivable and disgraceful and one can go with few more of such choicest of adjectives to describe the results of under-graduate courses in Rajiv Gandhi University, that were declared on Wednesday last.

Mind you, those adjectives were for the result; neither for the students nor for the faculty members.

It’s difficult to pin-point the cause-effect relationship. Is it the students who have self-inflicted the debacles or is it the faculty members who help them dive into the ebb? Is the result an outcome of RGU ending up with non-serious students who are less motivated to achieve in lives and less inclined towards academics? Is it that faculty members are pursuing more projects under UGC and teaching less in class? Is it a arm-twisting method to raise funds from applicants for "re-evaluation" (each re-evaluation cost Rs 500). Let their conscience prick them- teacher and students alike-for such blot in the academic performance of the lone university of the state. 

Like a destructive Tsunami, examinees have come crashing down. Terrible performance of most of the colleges with very low pass percentage is one of the saddest man-made tragedies to have struck the state, much graver than natural calamities.  This grim situation could be the right time for serious re-thinking; and stage is perfectly pitched for revamping the flaws and rots in the system. Such set-back must be used as an opportune moment to initiate a turn-around of the university.

The Vice Chancellor of the university must have a hard look at “cause-effect of the results” and the Chancellor of the university could provide a vision and mission for the VC and team members to strive for. And the Chief Rector may like to guide them.  Together, Chancellor and Chief Rector, with their Air Force and Army background, could play a pivotal role in bringing in rigour and discipline as core values in campus. Intent must spelt out, action must be monitored. The authorities at the helm of affairs must leave behind positive legacies that could be cherished long after they have left.

With all factors in considerations, the result could be a case of “Garbage-In, Garbage Out” model. It’s the quality of the students as much as learning centers that would count, not the quantity. Straighten the existing colleges and University, if one can. Or else, there’s no need for IIM and IIT. With that kind of RGU result (assuming it to be a reliable indicator), there would hardly be few students that could withstand the Spartan rigour and monastic discipline that is expected to be inherent behavioral traits of students making to IITs and IIMs. Do we have it in ourselves?

There’s a need for probe into “result” debacle (not to fix anyone) to improve the academic performance and enhance learning environment. After all, these are the same students who are likely to lead Arunachal Pradesh in near future.  Somebody needs to order a fact finding probe, wishful thinking. Nay!