A section of students are reportedly exploring legal options to overcome what they termed the delay in admissions to PhD courses at the University of Calicut.
The students claim that though the public notification for admissions for 2021-22 was issued in April last year, the process began only in February this year. It has been reported that many vacancies arose in between this period. There are allegations that applications from affiliated colleges were not being approved in time.
K.P. Lijith Chandran, an activist of the Kerala Students’ Union, is one of those who had earlier filed a case in the High Court against the university, accusing it of denying him PhD admission in the Department of Life Sciences in violation of reservation rules. He alleged that the university was slowing down the process now as the court order might be favourable to him. Mr. Chandran said that many students who wanted to join the course were in the dark because of this. “I will apprise the honourable court about the current situation,” he added.
