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Govt Mohindra College to wind up evening classes from new session
The Government Mohindra College here has decided to wind up evening classes from the new academic session. The college had started evening classes for Bachelor of Arts (BA) students last year.
The Government Mohindra College here has decided to wind up evening classes from the new academic session. The college had started evening classes for Bachelor of Arts (BA) students last year.
Around 400 students had joined the evening session last year, but dean of colleges, Punjabi University, Kulbir Singh Dhillon, has objected to this by writing a letter to the higher education secretary, Punjab government, and the director of public instruction (DPI) stating that the college had not taken permission to start the evening session.
Sukhbir Singh Thind, principal of the college, said, “We did not start any evening shift, it was only adjustment because we had enrolled 400 more students against the allotted seats of 1,000 for BA-1 last year. As all the students could not be accommodated in the morning session, so we decided to hold classes for them in the evening time. It was done to protect the interest of students as they had got an opportunity to attain education in a government-run college at lower fees.”
He, however, said, “We have decided to close the second shift from the new session. The students, who enrolled last year, will be adjusted in morning classes and now we will admit only 1,000 students in BA-1 this year.”
“Usually, the evening session starts after 5pm for employee candidates, but our all students were not working anywhere, so classes started at 2pm and ended by 4:30pm. Teachers were from also from the morning session,” Thind added.
Due to this, 400 students may have to face harassment.
Kulbir Singh Dhillon, said, “The college was wrong and they started the evening shift without university permission. If they decided to start evening shift, the college had to get permission from the state government and the university by October 1.”
“We will send a letter to the college principal on Tuesday asking him to pay fine,” Dhillon added.
