Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagruta Vedike has urged the Government to allow II PU students who were short of attendance to write exam on humanitarian grounds.

Addressing a press meet here recently, Vedike President K.S. Shivaramu said that the Government has made 75 percent attendance mandatory in every subject for allowing to write II PU exam. But some private colleges, citing this rule, have denied attendance short students to write the exam. These colleges are also forcing the parents of such students to get their wards re-admitted to II PU, he alleged.

Maintaining that this attitude of private colleges will be a burden to parents who have to shell out a minimum of Rs. 1.5 lakh fee again and also the disallowed students stand to lose one year, Shivaramu further alleged that the colleges had not informed the parents on shortage of attendance of their wards.

Continuing, Shivaramu said that though the Government, in a circular issued in September last, had directed the colleges to hold parents meeting and inform the parents of attendance shortage of their wards if any, some private colleges, in a bid to fleece the parents, had not done so, which has resulted in students losing one precious   academic year.

Asserting that about 250 students of city colleges are affected by the mandatory attendance rule, he said that the Government must allow these students to appear for II PU exam, as otherwise their career would be in jeopardy. He warned of an agitation if these students are not allowed to write the exam.

Congress Spokesperson S. Rajesh, former Mysuru District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President M. Chandrashekar, leader Lokesh Madapaura and others were present.