Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Student wins battle against GU for gold medal (1)

Good morning friends. Being number one in the examination is the pride of every students. They saw the result of their hardship in studying. After all that hardship, they will not mind that anymore when they saw that they were on top or they got the highest exam.

Gujarat University will have to drastically revise its list of toppers of 2007-08 of Third Year BCom and give gold medal to the deserving candidate.

After hearing the case of a student who turned out to be the topper on seeking reassessment of his examination papers, Gujarat High Court has ordered that he be given the medal, too.

The topper that year of TY BCom (accountancy) was Kirit Soni, who got the gold medal. After the results were announced, Arun Bhakkade got his papers reassessed and he scored 400 marks out of 490 in external exams after 13 marks were increased during reassessment of Business Organization and Management papers.

With this Bhakkade stood first in the college, and another girl Nisha, who also got her papers reassessed, got more marks and stood second. Soni was pushed to the third rank. The embarrassed university authorities were ready to grant a certificate stating that Bhakkade had stood first, but refused to give him the gold medal.

Their claim was that the cases of reassessment are not considered for giving rank and medals. This forced Bhakkade to move the high court through senior advocate Arun Oza maintaining that he is the contender for the medal. - The Times of India