Issue certificates to graduate students: Odisha government tells Kalahandi University

NEW DELHI: The deputy director, PTC, has directed the controller of examination, Kalahandi University, to take necessary steps for issuing graduation certificates to students who graduated from the institute from 2017 to 2020.

The university has also been asked to submit a report regarding the matter within two days to the PTC deputy director Rajata Kumar Mansingh. The move of the Odisha government comes after All India Students Union (AISU) raised the matter in a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnik.

In a letter dated August 26, AISU national president Digamber Dubey said the students who successfully graduated from Kalahandi Autonomous University between 2017 and 2020 have not been issued graduation certificates.

“Despite their efforts, these students have not yet received their graduation certificates from either Kalahandi Government Autonomous College or Kalahandi University. This delay, extending up to three years, is causing difficulties for students who wish to pursue higher education and secure employment,” he added.

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Dubey added that due to the delay in issuing the certificate was affecting the career paths of the graduates. “Many of them nurture ambitions of advancing their education through postgraduate studies, while others are eager to secure gainful employment opportunities. However, the absence of their official graduation certificates is acting as an obstacle, hampering their progression and subjecting them to unwarranted uncertainties,” the letter read,

The Kalahandi University was set up as Government College (Autonomous), Bhawanipatna, in 1960. It was upgraded to university on September 1, 2020.