Tension dominated the University of Kerala campus in Thiruvananthapuram after students from the Students' Federation of India (SFI) protested outside the University Registrar's office and demanded urgent action on the pending problems of the LLB examination. Police intervention followed and detained several student activists to prevent the protest from spreading.
The agitation was organised since the law students are so worried about the quality of the first-semester LLB examination at Kerala University in terms of time and faculty. SFI leaders have been told that students from the affiliated law colleges are frustrated by the long waiting time and lack of clarity in the valuation process.
SFI activists gathered outside the Registrar’s office carrying placards and chanting slogans against administration inaction. The students had asked the university to immediately implement a decision approved by the syndicate about the valuation of examination papers. They have advocated centralised valuation camps, which would make the assessment process more transparent, consistent, and effective.
According to the student organisation, the university syndicate had already approved a proposal that answer scripts for LLB exams should be evaluated by centralised valuation camps instead of decentralised ones. SFI representatives claim that the syndicate's decision has not led to concrete steps to implement the measure. The students stress that the delay has caused problems in the examination and result publication process.
Centralised valuation camps are commonly used in several universities across India to facilitate the evaluation of answer scripts. In this way, the evaluators gather at designated centres where papers are evaluated under standardised guidelines and supervision. They say it helps to eliminate the difference in marking and speed up the evaluation process to increase accountability. In the eyes of SFI leaders, taking this approach to Kerala University's law exams would alleviate many of the concerns students are now raising.
#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam | Police detain SFI members protesting outside the University Registrar’s office over widespread complaints related to the first-semester LLB examinations at Kerala University
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The protest heated up, and police personnel were deployed near the Registrar’s office in order to keep order. Police were able to intervene when students attempted to continue protesting near administrative buildings and to arrest a few of them. The students were later moved away from the protest site as authorities tried to get things back to normal at the site of the protest.
The SFI leaders were critical of the university administration after the arrests and saw it as dismissing legitimate student concerns. “The protest is about justice for law students and getting the examination-related problems taken care of,” they said. If nothing is done, they threaten to protest more in large demonstrations and the statewide campaign.
The protest has once again brought attention to the broader challenges faced by higher education institutions in managing examinations, evaluations, and result declarations. Student organisations argue that timely and transparent assessment procedures are necessary to maintain confidence in the academic system, particularly in professional courses such as law and the impact on future careers of their examination results.
Meanwhile, university authorities have not yet provided a comprehensive response to the demands made during the protest. But officials will address these and talk about how the valuation process may be modified from there.
This situation shows the mounting pressure on universities to handle the examination efficiently and have efficient management and administrative systems. The students will also need to wait for the valuation of the exams and for the result to emerge from the Kerala University and how they respond.
