LPG crunch forces Pondicherry University to prepone exams, cut academic days

PUDUCHERRY: Pondicherry University has decided to prepone the examinations from May 6 to April 21 and has directed the students to vacate the hostels by May 1 owed to a shortage of LPG, overmuch to the chagrin of the students.In a circular, University registrar R Gunasekaran announced the revised world calendar for the world twelvemonth 2025-26, reducing the fig of moving days to 79 from 90 “due to administrative reasons.” The summertime abrogation for each undergraduate/ postgraduate students volition commence connected May 1. The deans of schools, heads of departments and centres were told to nonstop the students to vacate the hostel by May 1.The Students Federation of India, Pondicherry University portion (SFI PU), condemned the arbitrary determination of the assemblage to prepone the examinations and to nonstop the students to vacate the hostel.

In a statement, the students’ forum demanded contiguous withdrawal of the university’s determination and restoration of the archetypal schedule. The assemblage medication should prioritise students’ world well-being implicit administrative convenience and guarantee that nary pupil is penalised for circumstances beyond their control, said the statement.It said alternatively of shifting the load connected to students by compressing the world calendar, the assemblage should research alternate arrangements to code the LPG issue.

“Immediate steps should beryllium taken to guarantee uninterrupted field functioning, including sourcing alternate substance provisions. Failure to bash truthful volition not lone disrupt academics but besides severely interaction pupil attendance, peculiarly for those who trust connected field facilities for their regular sustenance, said SFI PU.

“While the BJP-led NDA govt continues to contradict immoderate LPG situation and Prime Minister Narendra Modi publically claims that determination is nary shortage of LPG, the world connected the crushed tells a antithetic story. It is profoundly alarming that a cardinal assemblage has resorted to specified utmost measures. It exposes some ‘administrative failure’ and the ‘hollowness’ of the Union govt’s claim,” it said.