At last, all final year results declared

Mumbai: After a nearly four-month delay, the University of Mumbai (MU) finally managed to declare the results of all final year students. Results of all 477 examinations conducted in the months of April and May have been declared online on the MU website.

The Maharashtra University Act mandates that the varsity declare results within 30 days from the day of the last examination. If delayed, the same should be a maximum 45 days. However, because of the new online assessment in 2016-17, MU delayed results for around four months. Still, about 9,000 results are “reserved” which means they have been put on hold and will be declared within 10 to 15 days.

Students who planned to go abroad for further studies after their graduation went through a nerve-wracking time as they could not take admission in any university in India or abroad in the absence of a mark sheet. These students were later provided a “help desk” facility which provided them “urgent and confidential” mark sheets.

However, there are students still awaiting results as their online results show “reserved”, “withheld” or “announced later”. Nearly 9,000 students’ results are showing “reserved” out of which, around 4,600 are still to be evaluated.

The remaining results have either been misplaced or are pending assessment. The acting controller of examinations Dr Arjun Ghatule said, “We are positive about declaring pending results in a couple of days.”

In order to expedite assessment, MU came up with new ways that would curb delay. Some of them included physical checking of answer papers, asking help from other universities in Maharashtra, developing new technicalities in the system, etc.

That is when the varsity gave some of its Commerce papers to outside universities — around 26,662 to Aurangabad University; 10,114 to Kolhapur; 12,981 to Nagpur; 6,926 to Pune; 7,419 to Sangli; and 502 to Satara University.