Jadavpur University buckles under pressure from protesting students, forced to announce entrance tests dates for Arts stream

Students would be admitted in the six subjects based on the 50:50 formula - equal weightage on marks obtained in admission tests and in board examination. Kolkata: A day after the Jadavpur University authorities decided to reintroduce admission tests in the Arts faculty ending the impasse there, the officials concerned held a meeting on Wednesday and announced dates for entrance examinations to be held later this month. We are satisfied with the decisions.” In a marathon meeting, the EC had decided last night to reintroduce admission tests in the Arts faculty, putting an end to the impasse surrounding scrapping of the entrance examinations in English, Comparative Literature, Bengali, History, Political Science and Philosophy. The Arts Faculty Students’ Union, spearheading the agitation, including a 96-hour fast, by students to press for the reintroduction of admission tests, also expressed happiness over the outcome of today’s meeting. On Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das’s statement that he and Pro-VC Pradip Ghosh wanted to be relieved of their responsibilities the AFSU general secretary said, “We had never asked for the removal of the VC or the Pro-VC.” “We had only called for maintaining the high academic standard of the JU and not tinker with the time-tested admission test procedure to the Arts faculty.