Dear friends,
I am Satyapriyanka a visually challenged woman who registered for my
Ph.D program in 2014-2015 academic year in the department of
Cultural Studies EFL University Hyderabad. I was told just a couple of
days back by the department that I have failed in the course-work
titled “Contemporary India” offered by Professor Madhava Prasad. To
the best of my knowledge, I have submitted all the assignments and the
final term paper asked by him. I strongly feel that I don’t deserve F
grade in this course-work, while I got B and B+ in other three
courses. I attended most of the classes and tried my level best to
cope up with other students and with the professor in understanding
the course. To your information, I was not given second chance to
rewrite my term paper, nor was I informed that I failed in the course.
When I went to get my Mini Thesis signed, I was told quite abruptly
that I could not continue the program since I had been failed in a
course-work. I strongly believe that the University and any person
with little empathy would agree that it is a highly unfair treatment
against a visually impaired woman who has crossed plenty of hurdles to
reach the Ph.D course not to be allowed to rewrite the term paper or
not being given any chance to rectify the mistakes if any. It is also
quite rudimentary on the part of the Department of Cultural Studies to
keep me in complete obliviousness about me having been failed in the
course work. if the professor is not satisfied with my first
submission, he could have conveyed my short-comings directly or could
very well have given a chance to re-submit my course works. Yet,
nothing of that sought was ever done in my case.
I tried all the possibilities as a student what I could do in the
university. Finally the university has decided to send me out. They
are simply quoting the rule-book which says that if a Ph.D student
gets F or D grade in any of the course-work, his or her admission will
be canceled. But in my case, I was not even given second chance to
re-submit the term-paper. All that was told to me was that I couldn’t
continue the program owing to F grade in the particular course. That
also, I was told after a month by the department. I appealed to the
vice-chancellor, registrar, and controller of the examinations, but
nothing seems to come out of it. Hence, I request you to support me to
fight against the injustice done to me in this university.
Thank you
Satyapriyanka.R
Ph.D research scholar
Department of Cultural Studies
EFL University
Hyderabad
Mobile: 9963629231
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