GNDU Placement 2021: Future of 300 students of Guru Nanak Dev University uncertain amid COVID-19 pandemic

In order to resolve these issues, the GNDU is in continuous contact with the companies so that the students having placements do not face any problem in joining their jobs. 

GNDU Placements 2021: Amid the ongoing pandemic situation, nearly 300 recently graduated students from the GNDU, are staring at an uncertain future as several companies that offered them jobs during GNDU Placements 2021 are now finding it difficult to hire them. The reason behind the issue is that these companies are facing issues to evolve criteria for hiring in the absence of "comprehensive evidence" of their academic performance. In an official release, the Guru Nanak Dev University on June 13 said that “the students are facing a peculiar situation regarding their job offers due to non-availability of detailed marks cards of their intermediate semesters as they were promoted last year on the basis of the cumulative average of their grades of previous semesters.”

The actions regarding the conduct of exams were taken by GNDU according to directions of the government following the COVID-19 pandemic, the university said. A GNDU official said “some of the companies offering jobs are finding it difficult to evolve criteria to hire prospective employees in the "absence of concrete and comprehensive evidence" of their academic performance in the form of detailed marks cards of all the semesters.”

The official further said, “Reservations have also been expressed over the conduct of non-proctored e-mail based examinations. Students and their hirers did not take very kindly to examinations which were held by sending question papers to students and receiving the answer sheets through e-mail.” The University expressed that it has observed a noticeable discrepancy in the performance of students in comparison to their record of previous semesters. During this procedure, many good students have secured fewer marks. In order to resolve these issues, the GNDU is in continuous contact with the companies so that the students having placements do not face any problem in joining their jobs, the official said.

An overwhelming majority of students have given their choice for offline examinations. The university has conveyed this to the Punjab government and sought directions in this matter. The GNDU has decided to conduct examinations according to the guidelines and directions of the state government.

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