Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeks Odisha CM's intervention to issue marksheets to UG students

Pradhan stressed that the late publication of provisional results or non-issuance of mark sheets was causing great suffering and jeopardizing the career prospects of the students.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's intervention for giving provisional final year semester results or mark sheets to the undergraduate students in the state. In a letter to Naveen Patnaik, the Education Minister said that the students who had appeared for the sixth-semester examinations through virtual mode in the first and second week of August have not been issued mark sheet and the results are expected to be declared later in September. 

"Despite repeated pleas to colleges and state education authorities, these students have not been provided with professional mark sheets. I am also in receipt of multiple grievances in this regard from the student community in Odisha," the letter read.

Pradhan further stressed that the late publication of provisional results or non-issuance of mark sheets was causing great suffering and jeopardizing the career prospects of the students.

The Union education minister pointed out that the students were required to submit their final or provisional mark sheets for seeking post-graduate admission to various state and central universities outside Odisha where the procedure had already commenced.

Pradhan further mentioned in his letter that he was "distressed to learn'' that many students had already missed the admission deadlines for Central University of Mizoram and Bharathiar University in Tamil Nadu, adding that they were under severe stress due to fast-approaching deadlines for other varsities like Mumbai University.

"In this context, it is also relevant to mention that these students will also be deprived from appearing in offline university entrance examinations being held outside the state," he said.

"Keeping in mind the welfare and career prospects of final semester undergraduate students in Odisha, I seek your urgent attention in undertaking necessary action for the immediate issue of final mark sheets or attested provisional mark sheets to them so that they may be able to pursue postgraduate admissions into various state and central universities in India," Pradhan added.

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