KATHMANDU, May 13: Om Sterling Global University and Tribhuvan University have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday.

The purpose of the MoU is to encourage, felicitate and qualitatively strengthen the pursuit of mutually beneficial academic relations between TU and OSGU.

OSGU is a university based in Haryana, India established by an Act of Haryana Government under the section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act 1956.

According to the MoU, the two universities will cooperate in academic programs, engage in the development of joint research activities, conduct faculty and exchange, participate in seminars and academic meetings, exchange academic materials, results of teaching and research collaboration and other information.

The MoU will remain effective until five years from the date signed by the two parties.

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By Aditya Dahal

KATHMANDU, Feb 26: The Tribhuvan University (TU), in the results of BBS 3rd year- 2074 BS, issued a notice stating the answer sheets of 69 students of Sindhuli Multiple Campus were missing, requiring them to sit for a re-examination.

Even though, the affected students initially protested the calling it the university’s ‘sheer negligence’ stating it would affect their future, they were left with no option but to give in to its order and reappear in the examination.

Ganesh Dahal of Sindhupalchowk who attended the Bachelor’s second year (regular) exams from the Chabahil-based Pashupati Multiple Campus was taken by surprise when he saw the result sheet that stated he was passed in four subjects and absent in one.

He visited the TU Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) in Balkhu several times with the proof of attendance record in all five papers, but, to his dismay, he was greeted with a cold and terse response by the TU officials.

Dahal, then, registered his complaint at the Hello Sarkar, the government official portal to listen to public grievances, following which the university admitted that his paper was lost, promising to find it. After a year, Dahal still has no idea when the TU OCE will find his ‘missing’ answer script.

Shyam Sundar Yadav has a story to share with about the irresponsibility on the part of the country’s oldest university. His daughter Chandrika Kumari passed the Bachelor-level and her mark-sheet also showed that she had passed the examination.

But her happiness turned to be short-lived after her transcript detailed that she was absent in exam. Yadav visited TU many times in a bid to make correction in the transcript. But the TU staffs never responded to him professionally, leaving him annoyed. “Why all this?,” he wondered.

These are just a few representative cases that show how hundreds of TU students have been affected and tortured by anomalies of Office and the negligence of its staff.

After the results are published, hundreds of students reach the examination controller’s office at Balkhu carrying similar grievances resulted from the TU officials’ weakness in handling the answer sheets.

But, the OCE staffs frequently respond them with a readymade answer, “Appear in next exam”.

TU is not only an academic institute, but also the future of scores of students across the country associated with it.

Controller of Examinations, Pushpa Raj Joshi admitted that answer sheets of some students were missed, and they are being searched for.

“Still no progress, once it gets, students will be informed,” he said.

The OCE carries out many works related to organization and educational administration. In terms of its responsibility, it has to carry out many works related to the students’ academic certificates and transcripts, remaining close to the students.

But a minor error of this vital body of the university has made the future of many a student uncertain.

Not to speak about the hassles related to obtaining the transcript, there are so many instances of negligence and anomalies within the OCE that hundreds of students have to suffer as the Office is found issuing wrong registration number and also misplacing the exam answer scripts.

“The web of anomaly in the Tribhuvan University is indescribable. This is palpable more so at the OCE at Balkhu in the form of the office employees’ utter negligence in preparing students’ transcript, mark-sheet, assigning registration number to students and proper handling of the answer scripts. Sometimes, the students also have to face the rude and cold behavior of the employees,” an annoyed student shared.

A large number of students can be seen making rounds at the OCE at Balkhu every year whenever the results are published, applying to make corrections in the spelling of their name and their registration number or mark-sheets. The students have to pay a certain fee for correcting such mistakes and slips on the part of the OCE.

One more anomaly that has proliferated at TU is the emergence of the middlepersons. Students do not get their mark-sheets and certificates even though they fulfill all the process for acquiring one. The OCE employees are accused of dilly-dally in providing these papers to the students in one or the other pretext or lapses, complained Sushil Ghimire of Sindhuli, a student at Baneshwar Multiple Campus.

There are also no sign boards at the different sections at the Office of the Controller of Examinations where service seekers from across the country come for getting various works done, including taking mark-sheets, certificates, transcripts etc. There is not even a citizen charter explaining the processes that a service seeker needs to fulfill for getting a certain work done from the OCE.

This sorry state of affairs at the OCE of the country’s oldest and largest university begs for drastic reforms to make its works effective to the extent of satisfaction of the students.

KATHMANDU, July 30: The Tribhuvan University has begun using an arrears management software system in a bid to maintain financial transparency.

The software system named ‘Tribhuvan University central arrears information management system’ has been installed in 30 TU departments, said registrar Dilliram Upreti, who inaugurated the software amid a program on Sunday.

“There is a need to preserve TU’s financial discipline and transparency. Now with the system into operation, the budget will be stopped for a section failing to audit its internal and external transaction on time,” he said.

Deputy Auditor General Bibekananda Ghimire said the system would be fruitful in maintaining TU’s financial discipline, while urging all TU staffers to abide by its rules and procedures.

KATHMANDU, July 6: The Office of the Dean, Faculty of Law, Tribhuvan University reintroduced the quota system in Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) first year under pressure from various teachers’ associations like Nepal Progressive Teachers Association, Democratic Teachers Association, Tribhuvan University Teachers Association, Nepal Law Campus Unit Committee and the Entrance Examination Committee for LL.B.

Earlier, the Law Faculty had decided to scrap the quota system in the LL.B program and take new enrolment without entrance examination in an agreement with various students unions.

Dean of the Law Faculty Prof Dr Tara Prasad Sapkota in a statement said they scraped the earlier agreement with the students unions and re-enforced the quota system under pressure from various teachers’ unions.

As per the quota system, 800 seats have been allocated for Nepal Law Campus in Kathmandu, and 150 for other campuses outside the valley.

Meanwhile, the All Nepal National Free Students’ Union (ANNFSU), Nepal Law Campus protested against the quota system. “Students will be deprived to pursue law degree due to the quota system,” said the ANNFSU, Unite Committee Chairperson Hari Prasad Pangeni.

KATHMANDU, Aug 20: Tribhuvan University has decided to grant affiliation to Kathmandu National College, Ghattekulo at the time when Dr Govinda KC is staging his 11^th hunger strike demanding endorsement of Medical Educational Bill.

TU Rector Sudha Tripathi confirmed the decision to grant affiliation the medical college, an extension of Birjung-based National Medical College, claiming that they were compelled to make the decision after the Supreme Court repeatedly inquired on the implementation of the court’s verdict.

On September 16, 2014, a division bench of then Chief Justice Damodar Sharma and Justice Om Prakash Mishra had issued a judicial writ to grant affiliation to the college as per the law.

The Educational Council of Institute of Medicine had halted the affiliation procedure of the college in 2013 stating that the college lacked proper infrastructures.

But in 2014, a team led by Dr Kabir Nath Yogi, after inspecting the college, had recommended the TU to grant affiliation. However sources had claimed that the Yogi and his team produced fallacious statistics about the college for affiliation.