The National Human Rights Commission has helped 32 students get their certificates of Bachelor of Science degree in nursing which they were not given earlier despite having passed the course four years ago from a central university in Madhya Pradesh.
The Commission has also asked the University to pay Rs one lakh each to the nine complainants, who had approached the Commission for relief for the unjustifiable denial of their degrees.
As per the UGC (Grant for Degree and other Awards by Universities) Regulation, 2008, the degree award date/s shall be within 180 days of the date/s by which the students are expected to qualify and become eligible for them.
"The Registrar of the Dr Hari Singh Gaur Central University gave the degree certificates to nine students in the Commission today, who had lodged the complaint in the matter. He also produced the proof of dispatch of degree certificates to the 23 other students," according to an NHRC statement.
These students had completed their course in 2011 from the Christian Medical and Training Centre, School and College of Nursing, Damoh, affiliated with Dr Hari Singh Gaur Central University.
The Provisional Degree Certificate issued by the university was valid only for six months.
However, despite making several requests to the university, these students neither got degrees nor any convincing response to that effect following which they approached the Commission seeking its intervention for relief saying that they suffered mental agony, monetary loss and carrier loss because of the inaction on the part of the authorities.
The Commission registered a case in the matter on January 21 and issued notices to the concerned authorities calling for reports in the matter.
During the course of enquiry, the Commission did not find convincing the arguments given by the university authorities behind the delay in disbursement of degrees, and recommended that it should pay Rs one lakh each to the nine complainants, who approached the Commission for relief for the unjustifiable denial of their degrees.
The Commission has asked the university through its Registrar to pay the relief to the students within six weeks and submit compliance report along with proof of payment thereof.
